GNU bug report logs - #64141
27.1 newly has clunky type-break y-or-n-p

Previous Next

Full log

Message #23 received at 64141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 64141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, samologist <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#64141: 27.1 newly has clunky type-break y-or-n-p
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:47:04 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  64141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:57:51 +0300
> 
> > just now in normal usage, the y-or-n-p popped up in the middle of an isearch.
> >
> > point was in the middle of hte isearch still.  it was not trivial  to
> > answer the y-or-n-p (point not there) and fix state.
> 
> Reading type-break.el raised some questions: please confirm does the same
> problem occur after using the default value of 'type-break-query-function'
> that is 'yes-or-no-p', and not 'y-or-n-p'?
> 
> It looks like type-break uses 'run-at-time' and then tries to
> call 'y-or-n-p' in the middle of an isearch.  I tried both
> 
>   (run-with-timer 5 5 #'yes-or-no-p "OK? ")
>   (run-with-timer 5 5 #'y-or-n-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?

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.