From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally' Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 02:59:36 +0200 Message-ID: <877ffazlhj.fsf@gnus.org> References: <9fd1f4c3-a944-4305-9eb5-9f3a877d1b8b@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462323654 18995 80.91.229.3 (4 May 2016 01:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 01:00:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18340@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 04 03:00:42 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1axlBC-0001bh-Iu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 May 2016 03:00:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axlB8-0005Ri-Qk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51195) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axlAx-0005D8-0S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axlAb-0000Hb-Ph for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:52055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axlAb-0000GA-N7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axlAY-0004aC-4s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 21:00:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 01:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18340 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18340-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18340.146232358217560 (code B ref 18340); Wed, 04 May 2016 01:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18340) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 May 2016 00:59:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36159 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axlAE-0004ZA-L8 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 20:59:42 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:39552) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axlAC-0004Z1-AB for 18340@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 May 2016 20:59:41 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.1.64.getinternet.no ([84.215.1.64] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1axlA8-00068p-O9; Wed, 04 May 2016 02:59:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9fd1f4c3-a944-4305-9eb5-9f3a877d1b8b@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:37:45 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:117705 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > Summary: Don't show a multi-line message for prompting `y-or-n-p' > in the echo area and expect users to see it. > > The UI for `find-file-literally' depends on `resize-mini-windows' being > non-nil. Not a good idea. To see how bad it can be, set > `resize-mini-windows' to nil, then visit a file, then try to visit it > using `M-x find-file-literally'. You see only this line in the echo > area, which is not even a question: > > The file foo.el is already visited normally. We should perhaps consider obsoleting `resize-mini-windows'. Emacs has many prompts now that don't make sense in a single line. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no