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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	drew.adams@oracle.com, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:39:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y2k8zxb8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2010132245410453.21623@sdf.lonestar.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:59:17 +0000)

> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 20:59:17 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, acm@muc.de, juri@linkov.net,
>         monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Shifting existing stuff around could be distracting or annoying for some 
> > users.
> 
> It's what eldoc already does for a similar situation, and I haven't seen 
> complaints about this.  IMO it's elegant to solve that problem in that 
> way.

Eldoc's purpose is different from the purpose of displaying echo-area
messages.  For example, nothing significantly bad can happen if you
miss the Eldoc's hints, but the same is not true for some important
echo-area messages.

And I think using the mode line for Isearch would be jarring.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13 17:31 Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area] Drew Adams
2020-10-13 18:39 ` Where to show message output while inputting Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-10-13 19:42 ` Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area] Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-13 20:38   ` Drew Adams
2020-10-13 20:59     ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
     [not found]       ` <2bedd6ef-c49a-4e0e-b0e4-4e3c6b8b79ce@default>
2020-10-13 21:55         ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-14 14:39       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-10-14 14:58         ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-14 17:27           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-14 21:22             ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-15  1:52               ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <87eelo6iio.fsf@blind.guru>
2020-10-24 17:31   ` Drew Adams

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