bug#7565: 24.0.50; "Buffer ... modified; kill anyway?" doesn't end up in *Messages*

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> It is an interactive query. Did you type "yes" without reading it?
>
> I sometimes forget.  And then I look in the *Messages* buffer, and am
> disappointed that it's not there...

I wondered where the yes-or-no-p prompt happened, and it's in the bowels
of read_minibuf, and it's this:

    /* Insert the prompt, record where it ends.  */
    Finsert (1, &minibuf_prompt);

So if we want to do this, it probably makes sense to put absolutely all
minibuffer prompts into the *Messages* buffer.

And that's actually something I can see the charm in doing, but I'm not
quite sure that the use case is compelling.  Dan mentions

> Probably so one has a way of putting the message into a bug report if needed.

but you can do that by just going to the beginning of the minibuffer and
copying the text there.

Does anybody have an opinion here?

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