Subject: bug#5423: Multiline y-or-n prompt in files.el

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:03:17 +0100

> I'm not sure just what you meant with "beginning of the prompt", but
 > what I see is only the last line of the entire prompt message:
 > "The file test is already visited literally,
 > meaning no coding system handling, format conversion, or local variables.
 > You have edited the buffer.  Now you have asked to visit the file normally,
 > but Emacs can visit a file in only one way at a time.
 >
 > Do you want to save the file, and visit it normally instead? "

Why can't that prompt just say

"File's buffer modified, save it and visit file normally afterwards?"

martin