Re: recover-file warnings too easy to get covered up

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

d>     The vital minibuffer message
d>        [file] has auto save data; consider M-x recover-file
d>     gets overwritten before the user has time to notice it, with

r> What command produces that message?

Simple,
$ emacs x.sh
Type some stuff, then ^Z suspend, kill -1 %1, leaving a #x.sh# file, then
$ emacs x.sh #again, and look at the *Messages* buffer.
You would have to happen to be looking at the minibuffer during the
vital second the "consider M-x recover-file" message is displayed to
see it before it gets covered up. I recall this issue is not new.
So how are you going to make sure the user sees that message before
blithely editing that file?  Or is e.g., "Indentation setup for shell type
bash" more important for him to see as he assess the screen once the
smoke clears?