bug#10873: 24.0.93; `report-emacs-bug' obscures bug-reporting buffer (!)

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > *Completions* is not a modal window.

I don't mind to disagree here.

 > And it is not the case that
 > users cannot or should not start another activity (related or
 > unrelated) while the minibuffer is active or *Completions* is shown.

Agreed.  That's precisely why the *Completions* window is dedicated.

 > Certainly users should not be proscribed from having a completion
 > in progress while they file a bug report.  Think, for instance, of
 > `enable-recursive-minibuffers'.  Or think of keys that invoke
 > commands from the minibuffer - commands that might do nearly
 > anything.  Or think of wanting to refer to the *Completions*
 > buffer while filling out a bug report.

Agreed, again.

 > The bug-reporting code should not make any special assumptions
 > about other user activity that might be in progress or done "in
 > parallel".  It should not assume that either it or some other
 > activity is modal.  A truly modal activity will in any case do
 > its best to prevent anything else from interfering.
 >
 > Certainly preparing a bug report is NOT a modal activity,

The modal activity in the case at hand is picking up a completion.

 > and
 > it should not prevent a user from interacting with Emacs in
 > other ways while the report is being prepared.  Nor should it
 > assume that the user will not continue to interact with Emacs
 > in other ways before the report is finished and sent.
 >
 > Use of the minibuffer should not be proscribed or curtailed just
 > because bug reporting wants to display some other windows.  And
 > use of other, non-bug reporting, windows should not be foregone
 > just because bug reporting wants to display some additional windows.
 >
 > What should happen is that the bug-reporting windows should both
 > be visible.  Or at the very least, the most important, not the
 > least important, of these two windows should be visible.
 >
 > And as the original bug report said:
 >
 >    This is a regression starting with Emacs 23.
 >
 > Since it is a regression it should not be impossible or unfeasible
 > to obtain the pre-regression behavior again.

Easy.  Find someone who makes the *Completions* window non-dedicated
again.  My interest in this bug is exhausted already.

martin