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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

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.

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