From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 12117@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12117: read-passwd deletes prompt
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:08:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtxwelp2f.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lihr7eke.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:04:17 +0300")
>> Hmm... I guess the problem is even more general: any minibuffer input
>> during insert-file-contents will suffer from it (granted, there usually
>> isn't much minibuffer input during such calls, luckily).
>> Maybe read-from-minibuffer should let-bind inhibit-read-only to nil?
>> That sounds ugly, tho.
> Since there is not much minibuffer input during insert-file-contents
> (one is known at the moment) then perhaps it would be safer to fix
> just these places specific to insert-file-contents:
No, I'd rather fix it in read-from-minibuffer than in just those
specific cases we bump into.
I think the "right" fix might be to make inhibit-read-only
buffer-local. But I fear some code relies on it being global, so it
might introduce bugs.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-02 8:07 bug#12117: read-passwd deletes prompt Juri Linkov
2012-08-06 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-07 0:04 ` Juri Linkov
2012-08-07 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-15 4:03 ` Stefan Monnier
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