bug#58788: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

bug#58788: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

[dick.r.chiang]

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It's borderline criminal that the echo area gets cleared
when inhibit-message is true.

emacs -Q -l cl-lib --eval " \
(let ((dont \"dont clear me\!\")) \
  (message dont) \
  (let ((inhibit-message t)) \
    (message \"nice try\") \
    (cl-assert (equal (current-message) dont) t)))"


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From 79e43be851ffd51e7353900207c254afd6123e84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dickmao <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:47:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

That means not blithely clearing the echo area.

* doc/lispref/display.texi (Displaying Messages): Revert 164a7eb.
* lisp/minibuffer.el (clear-minibuffer-message): Revert 164a7eb.
* src/xdisp.c (message3): Remove errant clear_message() from 2004.
(clear_message): Revert 164a7eb.
(syms_of_xdisp): Revert 164a7eb.
* test/src/xdisp-tests.el (xdisp-tests--respect-inhibit-message):
Test it.
---
 doc/lispref/display.texi |  5 +----
 lisp/minibuffer.el       |  6 +-----
 src/xdisp.c              | 28 +++++++---------------------
 test/src/xdisp-tests.el  |  9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index 15cd5518d91..b7e39679bcb 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -337,10 +337,7 @@ Displaying Messages
 Usually this function is called when the next input event arrives
 after displaying an echo-area message.  The function is expected to
 clear the message displayed by its counterpart function specified by
-@code{set-message-function}, but doesn't have to.  If the function
-wants the echo area to remain uncleared, it should return the symbol
-@code{dont-clear-message}; any other value will result in the echo
-area being cleared.
+@code{set-message-function}.
 
 The default value is the function that clears the message displayed in
 an active minibuffer.
diff --git a/lisp/minibuffer.el b/lisp/minibuffer.el
index a9f72d600de..98b68443c38 100644
--- a/lisp/minibuffer.el
+++ b/lisp/minibuffer.el
@@ -861,11 +861,7 @@ clear-minibuffer-message
       (setq minibuffer-message-timer nil))
     (when (overlayp minibuffer-message-overlay)
       (delete-overlay minibuffer-message-overlay)
-      (setq minibuffer-message-overlay nil)))
-
-  ;; Return nil telling the caller that the message
-  ;; should be also handled by the caller.
-  nil)
+      (setq minibuffer-message-overlay nil))))
 
 (setq clear-message-function 'clear-minibuffer-message)
 
diff --git a/src/xdisp.c b/src/xdisp.c
index 1f7ac269e4e..24e129f13f8 100644
--- a/src/xdisp.c
+++ b/src/xdisp.c
@@ -11948,7 +11948,6 @@ message_log_check_duplicate (ptrdiff_t prev_bol_byte, ptrdiff_t this_bol_byte)
 void
 message3 (Lisp_Object m)
 {
-  clear_message (true, true);
   cancel_echoing ();
 
   /* First flush out any partial line written with print.  */
@@ -12966,23 +12965,18 @@ set_message_1 (void *a1, Lisp_Object string)
 void
 clear_message (bool current_p, bool last_displayed_p)
 {
-  Lisp_Object preserve = Qnil;
-
   if (current_p)
     {
+      echo_area_buffer[0] = Qnil;
+      message_cleared_p = true;
+
       if (FUNCTIONP (Vclear_message_function))
         {
           specpdl_ref count = SPECPDL_INDEX ();
           specbind (Qinhibit_quit, Qt);
-          preserve = safe_call (1, Vclear_message_function);
+          safe_call (1, Vclear_message_function);
           unbind_to (count, Qnil);
         }
-
-      if (!EQ (preserve, Qdont_clear_message))
-        {
-          echo_area_buffer[0] = Qnil;
-          message_cleared_p = true;
-        }
     }
 
   if (last_displayed_p)
@@ -37171,20 +37165,12 @@ syms_of_xdisp (void)
 (which controls how error messages are displayed).  */);
   Vset_message_function = Qnil;
 
-  DEFSYM (Qdont_clear_message, "dont-clear-message");
   DEFVAR_LISP ("clear-message-function", Vclear_message_function,
 	       doc: /* If non-nil, function to clear echo-area messages.
 Usually this function is called when the next input event arrives.
-It is expected to clear the message displayed by its counterpart
-function specified by `set-message-function'.
-
-The function is called without arguments.
-
-If this function returns a value that isn't `dont-clear-message', the
-message is cleared from the echo area as usual.  If this function
-returns `dont-clear-message', this means that the message was already
-handled, and the original message text will not be cleared from the
-echo area.  */);
+The function is called without arguments.  It is expected to clear the
+message displayed by its counterpart function specified by
+`set-message-function'.  */);
   Vclear_message_function = Qnil;
 
   DEFVAR_LISP ("redisplay--all-windows-cause", Vredisplay__all_windows_cause,
diff --git a/test/src/xdisp-tests.el b/test/src/xdisp-tests.el
index 6ff64d0431a..9e3ad3bd6eb 100644
--- a/test/src/xdisp-tests.el
+++ b/test/src/xdisp-tests.el
@@ -179,4 +179,13 @@ test-messages-buffer-name
         (buffer-string)))
     "foo\n")))
 
+(ert-deftest xdisp-tests--respect-inhibit-message ()
+  "It's borderline criminal that inhibit-message still clears echo area."
+  (skip-unless (not noninteractive))
+  (let ((dont "dont clear me!"))
+    (message dont)
+    (let ((inhibit-message t))
+      (message "nice try")
+      (should (equal (current-message) dont)))))
+
 ;;; xdisp-tests.el ends here
-- 
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bug#58788: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

[Stefan Kangas]

severity 58788 wishlist
thanks

dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes:

> It's borderline criminal that the echo area gets cleared
> when inhibit-message is true.

bug#58788: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:03:53 -0400
> 
> It's borderline criminal that the echo area gets cleared
> when inhibit-message is true.

No documentation promised that the previous message will not be
cleared when inhibit-message is set.  We just avoid displaying new
messages.

We could extend the mechanism to allow it to prevent the clearing as
well, but that would probably mean inhibit-message will have to be a
tristate, because by now it's too late to change what its non-nil
value produces.  So we'd need to introduce a special value (not nil
and not t) which will have this effect.

> * doc/lispref/display.texi (Displaying Messages): Revert 164a7eb.
> * lisp/minibuffer.el (clear-minibuffer-message): Revert 164a7eb.
> * src/xdisp.c (message3): Remove errant clear_message() from 2004.

I don't understand what that has to do with the dont-clear-message
thingy.  That is about something else: it prevents clearing the
message when there's an input event, like if the user types some key.
I see no reason why we should remove that feature.

> +(ert-deftest xdisp-tests--respect-inhibit-message ()
> +  "It's borderline criminal that inhibit-message still clears echo area."

Please keep your contempt for other people out of the patches, if you
want them applied.

bug#58788: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

[Juri Linkov]

tags 58788 notabug
close 58788 29.0.50
quit

> (let ((dont \"dont clear me\!\")) \
>   (message dont) \
>   (let ((inhibit-message t)) \
>     (message \"nice try\") \
>     (cl-assert (equal (current-message) dont) t)))"

(setq clear-message-function
      (lambda () (when inhibit-message 'dont-clear-message)))

Problem solved.

bug#58788: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Respect inhibit-message

[dick]

JL> Problem solved.

I'm less irked by the comical obtuseness of your solution than the
smugness with which you present it.  Then again, I'm the king of smug.