From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Freenet.DE>
To: 11172@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11172: 24.0.95; mini-buffer contents is overwritten by output in echo-area
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:24:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <167E656F-B2FD-46FE-9026-C21EE3581EFB@Freenet.DE> (raw)
Hello!
Here is a simple case, which also shows more than just an annoyance.
Launch just compiled GNU Emacs with -Q, execute in *scratch* buffer
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'auto-revert-mode)
and open the recent buffer in dired. Just for fun type
M-x compile RET
and add some (meaningless) text to the make command or overwrite it with ./configure <whatever>. Now contemplate a bit, do as if trying to invoke configure in the other shell, from which GNU Emacs 24.0.95 was launched, to get its options. But type instead
touch something
Still wait a moment, look at the text in the mini-buffer – oh, it's gone! It might be substituted with something like
Reverting buffer `emacs-24.0.94'.
And when you now go to the Help menu to check "Send Bug Report..." no "*unsent Mail ..." buffer will open but the text
apply: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
will appear in mini-buffer/echo-area.
This can happen quite often, also when contemplating over a regexp, or find-grep, or whatever. It might be often easy to get back to the original state, by some cursor backward or forward movement, but it is annoying. IMO it's cleaner when GNU Emacs would wait a while before spitting out some message until I have finished editing in mini-buffer.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.95.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2012-04-04 on sumac.fritz.box
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11200000
Configured using:
`configure '--without-sound' '--without-dbus' '--without-pop'
'--without-gconf' '--without-gpm' '--with-x-toolkit=athena'
'--without-xpm' '--without-jpeg' '--without-tiff' '--without-gif'
'--without-png' '--without-rsvg'
'--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-v
-g -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -m64 -fast
-fomit-frame-pointer -msse4.2 -foptimize-register-move -ftree-vectorize
-fnested-functions' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-bind_at_load
-Wl,-t'
'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Dired by name
Minor modes in effect:
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
text-scale-mode: t
auto-revert-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> C-j
C-x d <return> <S-down-mouse-1> <S-drag-mouse-1> <S-down-mouse-1>
<help-echo> M-x c o m p i l e <return> b d s c l n
S <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <C-down-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Mark set
ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.
Reverting buffer `emacs-24.0.94'.
apply: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer
--
Greetings
Pete
The future will be much better tomorrow.
– George W. Bush
next reply other threads:[~2012-04-04 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-04 16:24 Peter Dyballa [this message]
2012-04-04 17:52 ` bug#11172: 24.0.95; mini-buffer contents is overwritten by output in echo-area Stefan Monnier
2019-11-29 13:25 ` Stefan Kangas
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