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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:30:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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.
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