Re: Strange use of (run-with-timer 0 nil #'foo args) in do-after-load-evaluation

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> So read-from-minibuffer reasserts the query if an asynchronous message
>> hides it?
>
> An asynchronous message doesn't hide the minibuffer.  It's displayed
> at the end of the minibuffer text.

The original bug report was about:

(progn
  (run-at-time 2 nil (lambda () (message "foo")))
  (y-or-n-p "Yes? "))

But this seems to have the same problem?  

(progn
  (run-at-time 2 nil (lambda () (message "foo")))
  (read-from-minibuffer "Yes? "))

When I eval that, "foo" completely hides the prompt -- it's not appended
or reasserted.

>> I think having a history for y-or-n-p doesn't sound very useful?
>> Hitting `M-p' doesn't to get to the previous answer just sounds
>> confusing to me.
>
> Please try the example I sent earlier.  It feels quite naturally
> typing 'M-p RET' to repeat a previous y/n answer.

I played with it a bit, and I'm not very enthusiastic about that.  Like
Stefan K says, it seems error-prone, and I think it would just create
frustration.  And it's a bigger change in the interface than it first
sounds like -- people may be used to hitting <up> as a way to reassert
the prompt, for instance.

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