bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[jidanni]

Please make sure messages like
"Buffer Makefile modified; kill anyway? (yes or no) "
end up in *Messages*. Thanks.

I thought it was due to emacsclient but it turned out not to be.
So no fancy test like the below needed.

$ cat Makefile
h:
	emacsclient -n --eval '(kill-buffer "Makefile")'
$ emacs Makefile
now with the server started, add some blanks to the Makefile and do M-x
compile, but don't save the Makefile...

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2010-11-21 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20101120-1)

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[Glenn Morris]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> Please make sure messages like
> "Buffer Makefile modified; kill anyway? (yes or no) "
> end up in *Messages*.

Why?
It is an interactive query. Did you type "yes" without reading it?

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[jidanni]

>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
GM> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

>> Please make sure messages like
>> "Buffer Makefile modified; kill anyway? (yes or no) "
>> end up in *Messages*.

GM> Why?

Probably so one has a way of putting the message into a bug report if needed.

GM> It is an interactive query. Did you type "yes" without reading it?

I just want a easy way of telling people what emacs just said to me if needed.

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> It is an interactive query. Did you type "yes" without reading it?

I sometimes forget.  And then I look in the *Messages* buffer, and am
disappointed that it's not there...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> It is an interactive query. Did you type "yes" without reading it?
>
> I sometimes forget.  And then I look in the *Messages* buffer, and am
> disappointed that it's not there...

I wondered where the yes-or-no-p prompt happened, and it's in the bowels
of read_minibuf, and it's this:

    /* Insert the prompt, record where it ends.  */
    Finsert (1, &minibuf_prompt);

So if we want to do this, it probably makes sense to put absolutely all
minibuffer prompts into the *Messages* buffer.

And that's actually something I can see the charm in doing, but I'm not
quite sure that the use case is compelling.  Dan mentions

> Probably so one has a way of putting the message into a bug report if needed.

but you can do that by just going to the beginning of the minibuffer and
copying the text there.

Does anybody have an opinion here?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I wondered where the yes-or-no-p prompt happened, and it's in the bowels
> of read_minibuf, and it's this:
>
>     /* Insert the prompt, record where it ends.  */
>     Finsert (1, &minibuf_prompt);
>
> So if we want to do this, it probably makes sense to put absolutely all
> minibuffer prompts into the *Messages* buffer.
>
> And that's actually something I can see the charm in doing, but I'm not
> quite sure that the use case is compelling.  Dan mentions
>
>> Probably so one has a way of putting the message into a bug report if needed.
>
> but you can do that by just going to the beginning of the minibuffer and
> copying the text there.
>
> Does anybody have an opinion here?

Nobody had, and as I said, I don't really see a compelling use case
here, so I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

OK, I can (almost) always use emacs -nw if needed.