From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 18340@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally'
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 02:59:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ffazlhj.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fd1f4c3-a944-4305-9eb5-9f3a877d1b8b@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:37:45 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-04 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-27 21:37 bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally' Drew Adams
2016-05-04 0:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-05-04 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-10 22:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-11 1:06 ` bug#18340: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-11 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-11 6:17 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-11 11:41 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] <<9fd1f4c3-a944-4305-9eb5-9f3a877d1b8b@default>
[not found] ` <<877ffazlhj.fsf@gnus.org>
[not found] ` <<83futxkhhd.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-05-04 15:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-05-04 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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