Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 1a6f595: * src/minibuf.c (read_minibuf): Add a FIXME comment.

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> My guess is that it's because the miniwindow is mostly single-line, so
> "prints" usually work better with \n than with LF.  I expect that while
> there might not be any prin1/print in sight nowadays that probably
> hasn't always been the case.

I went back to the earliest (circa 1991) minibuf.c in our repository and 
couldn't see a print1/print there either.

Perhaps this dates back to an earlier time when the minibuffer (or at least the 
minibuffer prompt) couldn't be multiline, so Emacs wanted to output "\n" rather 
than an actual newline when prompting or when echoing data.

Anyway, I doubt whether the code is needed now, as multiline prompts and data 
work just fine now in the minibuffer.

I filed a bug report for this (Bug#31251) to give others a chance to comment.