From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David Vanderschel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: controlling echo during mouse-dragging Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:10:50 GMT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <873c4m7zlq.fsf@indigo.shootybangbang.com> <87acyt2c3j.fsf@indigo.shootybangbang.com> <87smckk1he.fsf@indigo.shootybangbang.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088538571 26839 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:49:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:49:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfObQ-0000Uq-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:49:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOd6-0005sN-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:50:56 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.196.106.144!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!fe2.texas.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.68.174.193 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: fe2.texas.rr.com 1088122250 66.68.174.193 (Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:10:50 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:10:50 CDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123948 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19308 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19308 "John Paul Wallington" wrote in message news:87smckk1he.fsf@indigo.shootybangbang.com... > 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. I tried it. I can display text in a minibuffer. However, when I execute the same code inside the track-mouse loop, nothing happens. OTOH, invocations of the message function do have effect - if only ephemeral. I will probably just break down and offer my advice by modifying the content of the buffer itself. I had thought the echo area was the logical place for it, but it won't be a big problem in the buffer. Just a bit more work for me. Thanks, David V.