GNU bug report logs - #7137
two dashes appear after long y-or-n-p's

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: two dashes appear after long y-or-n-p's
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:31:40 +0800

(y-or-n-p "this short question is quite normal ")
(y-or-n-p "however, with this longer question, be it containing
newlines or not, if it is beyond a certain width, like this one here
is on my terminal, a very funny \"--\" appears after the question.
Test it with C-x C-e OK? ")
It doesn't happen with yes-or-no-p.
emacs-version "24.0.50.1"

Message #8 received at 7137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 7137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7137: two dashes appear after long y-or-n-p's
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:08:39 +0200

> From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:31:40 +0800
> Cc: 
> 
> (y-or-n-p "this short question is quite normal ")
> (y-or-n-p "however, with this longer question, be it containing
> newlines or not, if it is beyond a certain width, like this one here
> is on my terminal, a very funny \"--\" appears after the question.
> Test it with C-x C-e OK? ")
> It doesn't happen with yes-or-no-p.
> emacs-version "24.0.50.1"

Probably the result of revno 101415:

  2010-09-12  Stefan Monnier  <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

	  * subr.el (y-or-n-p): New function, moved from src/fns.c; use read-key.

It causes read_key_sequence to be called, which calls echo_prompt,
which calls echo_now, which calls echo_dash, which displays the
dashes.

Message #11 received at 7137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#7137: two dashes appear after long y-or-n-p's
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:05:37 +0800

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 01:08:39PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Probably the result of revno 101415:
> 
>   2010-09-12  Stefan Monnier  <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> 	  * subr.el (y-or-n-p): New function, moved from src/fns.c; use read-key.
> 
> It causes read_key_sequence to be called, which calls echo_prompt,
> which calls echo_now, which calls echo_dash, which displays the
> dashes.
Well they look terrible. 

Message #14 received at 7137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#7137: two dashes appear after long y-or-n-p's
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:16:40 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It causes read_key_sequence to be called, which calls echo_prompt,
> which calls echo_now, which calls echo_dash, which displays the
> dashes.

I've checked in a fix.

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