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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Samuel Wales <samologist <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 64141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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 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.
This bug report was last modified 1 year and 258 days ago.

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