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bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally'
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally' |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 15:30:56 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
tags 18340 + moreinfo
thanks
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Summary: Don't show a multi-line message for prompting `y-or-n-p'
> in the echo area and expect users to see it.
>
> The UI for `find-file-literally' depends on `resize-mini-windows' being
> non-nil. Not a good idea. To see how bad it can be, set
> `resize-mini-windows' to nil, then visit a file, then try to visit it
> using `M-x find-file-literally'. You see only this line in the echo
> area, which is not even a question:
>
> The file foo.el is already visited normally.
>
> Huh? A user who sees that has no clue as to what is going on.
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Please show a recipe, as I didn't understand the problem.
I also don't understand the problem. I tried doing the above steps with
(setq resize-mini-windows nil) and I don't see anything that is
different from when it is t.
Could we have a recipe to reproduce this issue?
- bug#18340: 24.4.50; Bad UI for `find-file-literally',
Stefan Kangas <=