From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Request: Please add a prompt to read-event
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:39:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o85exsyv.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p91ilvn19ew.fsf@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:30:15 -0800")
"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
> Emacspeak advices read-event and read-char to speak their
> prompt. There are a few places in Emacs where read-event and/or
> read-char are called without a prompt; e.g. disabled-command-function
>
> Could we perhaps fix this?
[...]
> (message "Type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): ")
> (let ((cursor-in-echo-area t))
> (while (progn (setq char (read-event))
> (or (not (numberp char))
> (not (memq (downcase char)
> '(?! ?y ?n ?\s ?\C-g)))))
> (ding)
> (message "Please type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): "))))
Hm... that is pretty odd. Why is it using `message' here instead of
just using that string as the prompt to `read-event'?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-18 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-17 16:30 Request: Please add a prompt to read-event T.V Raman
2021-12-18 7:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-12-19 14:46 ` T.V Raman
2021-12-21 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-21 17:18 ` T.V Raman
2021-12-22 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-22 15:08 ` T.V Raman
2021-12-26 16:22 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <p91v8zbi8fh.fsf@google.com>
[not found] ` <CAOySe-69oVWDEFjyvA=quJwj78PrwRPmCgALn=Ofr_OGtmAOsQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-12-26 20:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-27 12:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-27 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-27 14:45 ` T.V Raman
2021-12-19 5:00 ` Richard Stallman
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