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Subject: Re: Where to show message output while inputting [was: New
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:59:17 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, acm@muc.de, juri@linkov.net,
>         monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Shifting existing stuff around could be distracting or annoying for some 
> > users.
> 
> It's what eldoc already does for a similar situation, and I haven't seen 
> complaints about this.  IMO it's elegant to solve that problem in that 
> way.

Eldoc's purpose is different from the purpose of displaying echo-area
messages.  For example, nothing significantly bad can happen if you
miss the Eldoc's hints, but the same is not true for some important
echo-area messages.

And I think using the mode line for Isearch would be jarring.