Dear Emacs developers,

>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:29:02 +0200
>> juri@jurta.org (Juri Linkov) said as follows:

>> I think that the above code still have a problem: the above code
>> moves a cursor to the end of line temporarily.  I think that such
>> temoporal movement will confuse users.

>Yes, it would be too bad to move the cursor to the end of the line.
>But `minibuffer-message' doesn't do this: it leaves the cursor before
>the additional message appended to the minibuffer.

Thanks.  This is my first time to notice `minibuffer-message' because
the first version of shell-command.el was created when I used Mule-2.3
based on Emacs-19.34.

I have just prepared the minimized patch to support tab-completion
features for `shell-command' etc.  It is attached at the end of this
message.  Because several users do not want to see the current
directory, the default values of prompt options do not contain
%-sequences.

>However, I still don't see a solution for the problem how to display
>the message (such as "[Completing command name...]") without a delay,
>and leave it visible to the user persistently without interfering with
>the user input.

Persistently?  It may be quite difficult to realize, because
a completion function must know when it will disappear its temporal
message based on only user actions.

Regards,

-- 
TSUCHIYA Masatoshi