Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

  > >> I think all messages should be.  I've used experimental code to do that
  > >> in the past, and it was _really_ nice.  No stupid awkward pauses and
  > >> annoyance like the current method, everything just seemed *right*.
  > > How about allowing the minibuffer to have a header line, and display
  > > messages in the header line?  This limits the messages to be one line
  > > long, but it's probably easier to read, and it shouldn't be too much of
  > > a distraction.  Just my 2 cents.
  > 
  > In my setup (where I use a seperate minibuffer-only frame), this would
  > work OK, maybe, but in general eating up one more line of text
  > is undesirable.

I didn't mean for the extra header line to always be present, just to be
created on demand when there's a need for an extra message in the
minibuffer.  Yes, this would move the mode-line one line up and down
when displaying the extra header line in the minibufer, but that might
not be a problem given that it's not such a frequent action.