From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 04:38:28 +0000 Message-ID: References: <874ktbfa6h.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Reply-To: ndame , ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="48540"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: "40774@debbugs.gnu.org" <40774@debbugs.gnu.org> To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 06:39:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTdm-000CX1-Q3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 06:39:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35904 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTdl-0001Wp-Pa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTdf-0001U9-5n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:39:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTde-0004kZ-Mi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTde-0004kL-AJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTde-0002rs-6n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:39:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: ndame Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 04:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 40774 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 40774-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B40774.158761672310996 (code B ref 40774); Thu, 23 Apr 2020 04:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 40774) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2020 04:38:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53792 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTdL-0002rI-7c for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:38:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail4.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.27]:57929) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jRTdJ-0002r4-K9 for 40774@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:38:42 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587616715; bh=eDmYPjLTTgoZIFvxV+kM6Q9epaqozCqVlTOcJ/fpjhY=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Oc9YVT/AJajBoy0fFZVOFBZW7SxmJRDYjEmcviDDequ8pmr9MhjiiNweAebDKoO94 Bk32CTZu6aY8ZQDctZilzXDIVE0XMpQd5MJe3nOZLcPLSgTsCFD9AJBAL3AC2lxMRL dNj6d0/njXLv+tEOJG3gaM68vrgIVIwLS56Bk74I= In-Reply-To: <874ktbfa6h.fsf@mail.linkov.net> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:178843 Archived-At: > > Please try the multiline echo area implemented in > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-12/msg00646.html Yes, message stacking is also useful for other reasons. I was the one who suggested that feature in that thread. But message stacking clears the stack after a certain timeout which is different than what I'm suggesting here. With a timeout error messages could be hidden again by some other progress message which arrives later. Keeping error messages while the user is idle means the error messages stay up indefinitely until the user comes back even if he comes back, say, an hour later.