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24.4; Message in minibuffer put by y-or-n-p function does not disappear after pressing 'y' key

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From: Mark Karpov <markkarpov <at> opmbx.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4;
 Message in minibuffer put by y-or-n-p function does not disappear
 after pressing 'y' key
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:21:52 +0600

                                  ***

I use the following alias in my .emacs file:

(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)

It works OK, but when I press 'y' key in response to the query,
necessary actions are carried, but minibuffer prompt remains visible
until I press any key. For example, I see:

Buffer "*shell*" has a running process; kill it? (y or n) y

when the process has been already killed. I find it really confusing.

I can reproduce this starting emacs with -Q flag and evaluating
'(defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)' in scratch.

                                  ***



In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.7)
 of 2015-01-18 on bisson
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11603000
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft
 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
 --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
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  which-function-mode: t
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  auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill
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  auto-fill-mode: 1

Recent input:
M-x s h <return> l s <return> C-x k <return> y M-x 
r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading /home/mark/quicklisp/slime-helper.elc...done
Starting new Ispell process /usr/bin/aspell with default dictionary...
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
 *Minibuf-0*
Buffer "*shell*" has a running process; kill it? (y or n) y

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Message #8 received at 19700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Mark Karpov <markkarpov <at> opmbx.org>
Cc: 19700 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19700: 24.4;
 Message in minibuffer put by y-or-n-p function does not disappear
 after pressing 'y' key
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:36:45 +0100

Mark Karpov <markkarpov <at> opmbx.org> writes:

> I use the following alias in my .emacs file:
>
> (defalias 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
>
> It works OK, but when I press 'y' key in response to the query,
> necessary actions are carried, but minibuffer prompt remains visible
> until I press any key.

That is the normal behaviour of y-or-n-p.

Andreas.

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