From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: messages override minibuffer input Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:54:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <18146.9183.561171.347511@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18156.41397.801020.981025@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18158.37860.82364.792281@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18165.12883.174199.925266@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> <18166.33116.790735.879497@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190584600 27151 80.91.229.12 (23 Sep 2007 21:56:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:56:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 23:56:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZZRH-0005KE-EA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:56:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZZRE-0002It-T6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZZQF-0001rS-AD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZZQD-0001qR-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZZQD-0001qH-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZZQC-00035F-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZZPY-0003SF-P5; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:54:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <18166.33116.790735.879497@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79618 Archived-At: Yet quite generally, it confuses me when I type something and suddenly the text I have typed disappears. Even when the message disappears again when I continue typing, a smooth work flow requires that I know the last character I typed before the message appeared so that I know where to continue typing while something else is displayed. If we put such messages at the end, that may cause the minibuffer to grow by a line. Would you find that disturbing? If not, perhaps the thing to do is to put the message below the current input, always growing the minibuffer. Or put the message above the minibuffer contents. What would you think of that?