Re: controlling echo during mouse-dragging

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

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

>> Please post some example code, preferably pared-down to essentials,
>> that demonstrates the problem.
>
> Actually, I am close to giving up now.  I think I
> understand the problem.  The fact is that any message
> in the echo area is erased on occurrence of the next
> input event.  Normally mouse movement is not treated
> as an event, so one is not used to it causing erasure
> in the echo area.  However, having invoked
> track-mouse, I am saying that mouse movement _is_ an
> event, so the echo area gets erased every time the
> cursor moves to a new character position.  I do not
> see how to get around it.

Maybe you could display your message in the minibuffer rather than the
echo area?  See `emerge-show-file-name' for example.  It's hard to
tell whether that would make a difference without a concrete example
though.