Subject: Re: bug#64141: 27.1 newly has clunky type-break y-or-n-p

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:46:48 +0300

>>   (run-with-timer 5 5 #'yes-or-no-p "OK? ")
>>
>> and activated isearch.  Then the typed answer was added
>> to the search string.  Emacs 28 has an option
>> 'y-or-n-p-use-read-key' that you can set for type-break
>> that pops up the query at random times.  But the problem
>> still exists for 'yes-or-no-p'.
>
> Is this a new problem?  That is, did we have this working OK in some
> previous version of Emacs?  If so, which version had it right?

This never worked in isearch:

  (run-with-timer 5 5 #'yes-or-no-p "OK? ")

The patch to support this case was proposed in bug#62032.