From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: 9096@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9096: Don't clear the echo area automatically at every command execution
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:16:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l0piz38.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aaceef92.fsf@gmail.com> ("Štěpán Němec"'s message of "Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:39:21 +0200")
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
> (message "Hello")
> C-p
>
> => The message disappears, although C-p does not use minibuffer/echo
> area in any way.
>
> I've always found this behaviour annoying and counter-productive. It
> often happens that I don't even notice a message because of this.
>
> If someone actually likes the current behaviour, could we at least have
> an option to prevent commands from clearing the echo area until
> necessary?
I think that would be very confusing -- you'd have old, outdated
messages in the echo area basically forever (i.e., until the next
message).
So I'm closing this as a "wontfix".
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-16 9:39 bug#9096: Don't clear the echo area automatically at every command execution Štěpán Němec
2019-10-03 16:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-03 16:32 ` Štěpán Němec
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