From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Miles Bader'" <miles@gnu.org>,
"'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 'Juri Linkov' <juri@jurta.org>,
'Michael Albinus' <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
'TSUCHIYA Masatoshi' <tsuchiya@namazu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:46:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009601c87fb2$01cce2d0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lk4vpxnk.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> > I think that when the minibuffer is active, we should still output
> > a message, only differently (as does minibuffer-message).
> > Maybe just using minibuffer-message (and changing it so it uses
> > plain "message" when the minibuffer is not active) would do the trick.
>
> I wish _all_ messages would display ala minibuffer-message when the
> user's editing in the minibuffer -- the current behavior (temporarily
> ovewriting the minibuffer to show messages) is stupid and annoying,
> especially given that many errors one gets are fairly trivial or
> transient.
>
> I made a patch to do this sometime before Emacs 21 was released, and
> recall various issues popping up though... I think mainly it was the
> somewhat more exotic users of message, like quail completion info etc.
I find that it depends, though I can't give you a good fer-instance right
now. I'm not sure that a blanket change would be appropriate.
One disadvantage to `minibuffer-message' in some contexts is its
`minibuffer-message-timeout' delay. That can be inappropriate or annoying in
some contexts. And the message appears for only a limited time, even if
there is no input event. That's usually TRT, but not always, in my
experience.
Possibly a single DTRT messaging interface can be devised, but I suspect
that some code will continue to need to explicitly DTRT on a case-by-case
basis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 16:42 Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' paul r
2008-03-04 21:54 ` Michael Albinus
2008-03-04 23:17 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-05 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-06 8:40 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2008-03-06 10:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-06 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-06 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-06 17:31 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-06 17:46 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-03-06 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-07 2:14 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-06 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-06 17:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-06 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-06 23:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-08 17:39 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-08 22:21 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-08 22:38 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-08 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-09 0:21 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-08 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-09 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-09 17:45 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-10 6:12 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-10 14:44 ` Cannot build the trunk since unicode (was: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand') Stefan Monnier
2008-03-11 9:24 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-11 9:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-10 22:35 ` Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' Juri Linkov
2008-03-11 20:24 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-12 0:31 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-12 23:13 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-12 23:19 ` David Kastrup
2008-03-12 23:36 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-13 2:14 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-13 9:28 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-13 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13 19:02 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-14 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-14 7:46 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-14 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-15 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-15 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-14 3:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-14 7:47 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-14 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-14 18:33 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-14 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-14 22:31 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-15 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-16 14:24 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-16 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-17 7:36 ` martin rudalics
2008-03-17 15:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-14 1:04 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-09 14:01 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2008-03-09 17:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-10 0:08 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2008-03-10 0:57 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-10 1:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-10 2:20 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-10 2:37 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-10 22:31 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-12 1:31 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2008-03-12 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-12 10:42 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-15 8:29 ` TSUCHIYA Masatoshi
2008-03-15 10:24 ` paul r
2008-03-15 21:35 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-20 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-20 20:55 ` Juri Linkov
2008-03-21 17:17 ` Stefan Monnier
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