From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
Cc: 9557@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9557: 24.0.50; "y-or-n-p" does not clear the echo area
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:54:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87litj8898.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8Pv0hV9dXUb5dZQr9tYfQfXNGUDS1Y4tcrWFfZMQRXz2OT1Q@mail.gmail.com> (Dani Moncayo's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:27:17 +0200")
>> y-or-n-p deliberately displays the prompt with your response before it
>> returns to the caller, see the source. It does that because
>> otherwise you would not have a chance of observing your response.
>
> Ah, ok.
>
> In my case, I find that echo a bit unnecessary/disconcerting (hence
> this bug report).
>
> What about adding a variable to control that echo (with default value
> "on", to keep the current behavior untouched)?
You can put in your .emacs:
(defadvice y-or-n-p (around y-or-n-p act)
(let ((answer ad-do-it))
(message "")
answer))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-20 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-20 9:19 bug#9557: 24.0.50; "y-or-n-p" does not clear the echo area Dani Moncayo
2011-09-20 9:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-20 9:43 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-20 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 10:27 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-20 16:54 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2011-09-20 17:47 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-20 18:16 ` Juri Linkov
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