From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Clearing the minibuffer/echo-area for global indicators Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:18:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4F966FD9.1010102@gmx.at> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335259122 28798 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2012 09:18:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 11:18:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SMbtM-0004pl-5l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMbtK-00043c-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMbtH-00043U-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMbtB-0001BD-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:18:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:38661) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMbtB-0001Av-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:18:25 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2012 09:18:22 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-61-172.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.61.172]) [62.47.61.172] by mail.gmx.net (mp012) with SMTP; 24 Apr 2012 11:18:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/uXXlN1UfuBXMlz0PAdlzzaXPpcjX036R7vhlQKv dAHFk6sd8sa59c In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149967 Archived-At: > Someone posted a patch last year that removes a few spurious/redundant > clearing of the minibuffer/echo-area, which were making the use of the > minibuffer as a global-indicator-area more difficult than needed. > I can't seem to find the corresponding email any more, so... > ... whoever it was, could you send the patch again, so we can > install it? How about providing a function `clear-echo-area' which does precisely that but calls `clear-echo-area-hook' thus giving maintainers a chance to resurrect and possibly update their indicators? Or, as I suggested earlier, have `message' with a nil or empty string argument run such a `clear-echo-area-hook'. martin