From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to avoid clobbering minibuffer by messages? Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:32:33 +0300 Message-ID: <837cuy5y2m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3f004ca9-1f71-2c5b-17f1-e154f209e6d3@gmail.com> <83ilei62o6.fsf@gnu.org> <8d94bd37-d657-cf14-c0cb-372cde983ee0@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36479"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 30 12:33:08 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1phpad-0009Ha-53 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:33:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phpZz-00054e-TW; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phpZu-000510-K8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phpZu-00043E-45 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:32:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=icG69rbcv0aCJZpAvjdBE2p3JJU8BuFwg1lvohlV4ac=; b=Hhe65bNSi+WY 6zDciivljKz0txXmmPGNo0ouN/yqf/oQaI4jO1Jbfj+doFwDx04uEYEsSecTFHEFHp0OZnES6//G/ 43y2b5uji3skHnjxa0q9jAzrdbqEC3tNGx9trEX8lY5+dD36VEUF2YCiB5h4vWbfOjrvXaxhjylva qBxwWK5KSnk0ORgA88XfMW6CL1dkxLumse0yGTKt88S7fm+fBaux8l1vYK7owLyrePQSRql8V67cT Wx0L4sTl92EYe06ATVY/6RXeY5keHV5B+ZMrg3acJV+Fjchxlc+unFrd+au4F8blUPfasnW8INHs/ 0Eo/diNk3V68WQWg4bCZYQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1phpZt-00042b-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:32:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8d94bd37-d657-cf14-c0cb-372cde983ee0@gmail.com> (message from Platon Pronko on Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:40:40 +0800) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143150 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:40:40 +0800 > From: Platon Pronko > > On 2023-03-30 17:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:02:58 +0800 > >> From: Platon Pronko > >> > >> What was supposed to change in Emacs 28? > > > > The echo-area messages are now displayed without overwriting the > > minibuffer contents. > > Yes, they are not overwriting - they are appended to the minibuffer contents, which is often ugly and looks like something got broken (less broken than when it directly overwrote the buffer, of course). If that is what you see, then it's the intended behavior. That you are not used to it doesn't mean it's incorrect or broken. Functionally, it does the job, and we don't have any better alternatives for the case when a message should be shown when the minibuffer is active.