>>> But before I had a chance to answer the prompt, compilation finished >>> and obscured the prompt with this message permanently: >>> >>> Compilation finished >>> >>> So I forgot about what was in the prompt :-( >> >> Yeah, it's a problem all over the place. >> >>> Since Drew doesn't want to improve safety to cover all such cases, >>> we need to address these issues one by one, so here is the next patch: >> >> Drew doesn't have veto powers. I say go ahead and make the change in >> `message' (with a variable that can be used to force `message' to not >> behave like `minibuffer-message'). > > Yes, I believe a new variable would make Drew happy. The variable name is ‘message-in-echo-area’. After a little testing, it seems to handle all such cases well: