From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 19064@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 10:38:25 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ea0a3fa-5169-4493-bd54-3ebe47836a35@default> (raw)
I don't have a simple recipe, but I doubt that one is needed. If it
really is then perhaps I will come up with one.
I have some code that calls `y-or-n-p'. Immediately after it prompts,
`Man-bgproc-sentinel' writes a message to the echo area:
(message "%s man page formatted" (Man-page-from-arguments Man-arguments))
The user thus sees only a message such as "ps man page formatted".
S?he never sees the `y-or-n' prompt.
(Yes, of course as soon as the user tries to hit a key for some reason,
s?he sees the `y-or-n-p' repeat prompt.)
Seems like this is an Emacs bug. Seems like whenever `y-or-n-p' (or
just `read-key') is waiting for a key, `message' should do nothing.
Either it should echo its message after the key is read or (maybe
better) it should do nothing at all. As it stands now, this seems like
a basic UI problem, not just a minor annoyance.
FWIW, the context is that I am jumping to a `man' bookmark with code
that can activate the region recorded in the bookmark (not a vanilla
`man' bookmark), and if the region has been relocated (because the
target text has changed) then the user is prompted for whether s?he
wants to save the relocated region limits back to the bookmark. This
prompting is done by `y-or-n-p'. But `Man-bgproc-sentinel' then comes
along and overwrites the prompt.
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 118168 rgm@gnu.org-20141020195941-icp42t8ttcnud09g
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
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2014-11-15 18:38 Drew Adams [this message]
2015-12-26 16:30 ` bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 17:19 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-26 17:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-12-26 17:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-07 17:41 ` bug#17272: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-08 9:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-08 15:44 ` bug#17272: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-05 23:10 ` bug#19064: " Juri Linkov
2019-11-08 20:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-08 21:19 ` bug#19064: " Drew Adams
2019-11-09 23:01 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 2:13 ` bug#17272: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-12 15:34 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-12 22:20 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 23:23 ` bug#17272: " Drew Adams
2019-11-13 21:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-13 21:53 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-13 23:24 ` bug#17272: " Drew Adams
2019-11-14 15:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-14 16:28 ` bug#17272: " Drew Adams
2019-11-14 17:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-14 17:17 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-14 20:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-16 20:53 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-16 22:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-11-17 1:42 ` bug#19064: bug#17272: " Drew Adams
2019-11-17 21:58 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-17 23:54 ` bug#19064: " Drew Adams
2019-11-17 5:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-17 5:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-17 21:59 ` bug#17272: " Juri Linkov
2019-11-18 21:10 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-19 8:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-19 11:11 ` bug#19064: " João Távora
2019-11-19 22:39 ` bug#17272: " Juri Linkov
2019-11-19 23:38 ` João Távora
2019-11-20 22:10 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-20 23:44 ` João Távora
2019-11-21 21:39 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-22 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-23 19:02 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-23 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-26 23:18 ` bug#19064: " Juri Linkov
2019-11-27 0:46 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-21 8:22 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-21 21:44 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-22 8:08 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-23 18:56 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-23 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 22:28 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-20 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-20 22:18 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-21 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-21 23:07 ` bug#19064: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-23 21:54 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-26 23:44 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-27 11:55 ` bug#19064: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-28 22:45 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-06 22:18 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-09 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-10 9:46 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-10 20:45 ` bug#38164: quit-restore-window doesn't restore point in man Juri Linkov
2019-11-11 9:33 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-12 20:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-13 8:04 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-13 21:29 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 9:20 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-14 23:13 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-15 8:13 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-18 21:21 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-19 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 7:56 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-19 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 16:53 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-19 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 18:15 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-19 23:03 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-20 7:59 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-20 22:35 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-20 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-21 13:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-04 18:13 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-04-04 18:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-04 19:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-04 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-04 19:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-04 19:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 17:53 ` bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-12-26 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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