From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Cc: 32257@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32257: 26.1; read-multiple-choice inf loops on mouse clicks
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:06:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y3dro0e2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vz1d0v3y5sm.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Andy Moreton on Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:59:37 +0100)
> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:59:37 +0100
>
> > Another possibility is to use read-char-exclusive which only changes
> > ERROR_NON_ASCII to 0. The downside is that when there are mouse clicks
> > it prints the events into the minibuffer, covering the prompt (but
> > typing "?" still works to restore the prompt).
>
> AS you have done, I read the implementation and tried a patch using
> `read-char-exclusive'. The result is unusable as the printed events
> obscure the original question.
I think "unusable" is an exaggeration, since you can recover the
prompt. And the result is definitely better than the current
situation, where you just get stuck.
> The proper long term fix for this is to make read-multiple-choice use a
> dedicated buffer rather than the minibuffer, and give better visibility
> when more than one question is asked in succession. Perhaps also some
> way to stop the echo area from obscuring the minibuffer ?
The echo-area messages are fine, but we should have a feature that
allows to suppress echoing the mouse clicks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-31 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-24 12:05 bug#32257: 26.1; read-multiple-choice inf loops on mouse clicks Noam Postavsky
2018-07-26 1:25 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-27 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-27 11:35 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-27 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-27 12:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-27 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-31 1:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-07-31 11:59 ` Andy Moreton
2018-07-31 12:27 ` martin rudalics
2018-07-31 12:38 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-01 8:44 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-01 12:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-01 12:57 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-02 7:09 ` martin rudalics
2018-08-01 20:55 ` Live System User
2018-08-02 7:09 ` martin rudalics
2018-07-31 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-07-31 19:26 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-01 5:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-31 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-31 19:29 ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-01 5:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-01 12:05 ` Andy Moreton
2019-05-22 0:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-22 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-26 12:57 ` Noam Postavsky
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