Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

> I do the same thing myself, but only as a separate function. So when I want
> unconditional behavior (regardless of the current buffer) I can still call
> either `message' or `minibuffer-message' instead.

As a general solution it would be better to change `message'
to take care about the minibuffer's case.

> BTW, don't you need to ensure that the minibuffer window is active?

I think `active-minibuffer-window' is not suitable for this.
It returns non-nil even when the current buffer is not the minibuffer,
but there is no need to do this because it doesn't clobber the
current user input (i.e. when the user switched from the active
minibuffer to another buffer).

> FWIW, this is the code I use:
>
> (defun msg-maybe-in-minibuffer (format-string &rest args)
>   "Display FORMAT-STRING as a message.
> If called with the minibuffer inactive, use `message'.
> Otherwise, use `minibuffer-message'."
>   (if (active-minibuffer-window)
>       (save-selected-window
>         (select-window (minibuffer-window))
>         (minibuffer-message
>          (apply #'format
>                 (concat "  [" format-string "]") args)))
>     (apply #'message format-string args)))

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Juri Linkov
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