bug#64141: 27.1 newly has clunky type-break y-or-n-p

[Samuel Wales]

by modal do you mean ask as gui vs. kb depending on whether currently
using mouse?

by no problems do you mean recent emacs has none?  27.1 does, but
perhaps that is stone age.

fwiw i cannot address v>27.1.
fwiw non-modal bug existed before 26.1.


On 6/21/23, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
>>> >> the clunkiness that i think of that has always been there is this,
>>> >> which might or might not be related:
>>> >>
>>> >>   - if you are using the mouse when the query occurs, the query might
>>> >> be in the minibuffer.  it should be in a dialog box.
>>> >>   - if you are using the kb when the query occurs, the query might be
>>> >> a dialog box.  it should be in the minibuffer.
>>> >>
>>> >> the reason is that i am almost always either in mouse mode or kb
>>> >> mode.
>>> >> switching causes impact on my system as i have to lift my arms,  or
>>> >> drop one and possibly lift it again, which can be significantly
>>> >> problematic in my case for unrelated reasons.
>>> >>
>>> >> for isearch, i do not recall previous instances of it in v<=26.1.  i
>>> >> was only on 26.1 briefly.  27.1 was a first that i recall.
>>> >
>>> > Indeed, this is how it was supposed to work.
>>> > But there is a regression in 29.0.
>>> >
>>> > When tried
>>> >
>>> >   (run-with-timer 5 5 #'yes-or-no-p "OK? ")
>>> >
>>> > it pops up a dialog box in 26.3, 27.2, 28.2,
>>> > but uses the minibuffer in 29.0.
>>>
>>> Sorry, this is not a regression.  It still pops up the dialog box
>>> when you are using a mouse.  So I see no more problems.
>>
>> Sorry, I'm confused: could you summarize which problems are there, and
>> whether any of them are regressions?
>
> There are no problems to summarize.
>
> The "modal" minibuffer is achieved by y-or-n-p-use-read-key in 28.1.
>


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