Re: controlling echo during mouse-dragging

[John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org>]

"David Vanderschel" <DJV4@Austin.RR.com> writes:

>> > Is there any way I can prevent that uninformative "down-mouse-2-"
>> > echo from obliterating my infrequent attempts at informing the user?
>
>> Try binding `echo-keystrokes' to 0.
>
> OK, I tried that.  I made echo-keystrokes buffer-local
> and set it to 0.

Hm.  I meant `let' binding it when appropriate, but maybe that's
tricky -- are you tracking the mouse yourself or binding commands to
drag events, or something else ?

> This does prevent the "down-mouse-1-" 'keystroke' from appearing in
> the echo area.

Good :)

>  However, my own messages are still being obliterated
> (with blankness) as soon as the cursor moves off of the character it
> was on when my program realized that it needed to offer new advice.
> Unfortunately, that is not satisfactory, as I do not want to have to
> repeat the message every time the mouse moves - just when it gets to
> certain special places (which is not too often).
>
> So I still have an obliteration problem; and now I do
> not even know what is causing it.

Please post some example code, preferably pared-down to essentials,
that demonstrates the problem.