2011/8/22 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

> > Yet, the displayed information is not completely stable. What I mean is
> > that if I move the cursor in another buffer, the echo area is sometimes
> > cleared. It's a little bit annoying. How could I fix this without
> > advising several cursor displacement function ?
>
> I don't know enough about this code to be able to answer.  You're going
> to have to investigate which code does this "clearing" and what calls
> it, to then be able to figure out what's the best way to address the
> problem (we can change the C code for that in 24.2 if needed).
>
>
Hi,

I finally get time to work again on this global information area. I
think the use of " *Minibuf-0*" proposal is really interesting since the
echo area is most of the time useless and the global information are not
really useful when I'm using the minibuffer. So I tried to figure out
why it didn't work the way you said.

The problem is, considering I had put data in the " *Minibuf-0*", these
data are not displayed in the echo area. However, the " *Minibuf-0*" is
displayed each time I do a switch-to-buffer call. But once I type, the
echo area is cleared.

First, each time I type, the clear_message(1, 0) is called even when the
echo area is already cleared. This call looks useless and is part of the
cause of the behavior described above.

Second, when the echo area is clearing it does not redisplay the
miniwindow. So the " *Minibuf-0*" is not displayed as expected.

I tested this patch with emacs -Q, emacs -Q -nw and with my whole
configuration. Everything works perfectly fine and as
expected. Moreover, I verified that this patch does not generate extras
miniwindow redisplay.

Please merge it or review it,

Best regards,

Jérémy

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