Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> I think that when the minibuffer is active, we should still output
> a message, only differently (as does minibuffer-message).  Maybe just
> using minibuffer-message (and changing it so it uses plain "message"
> when the minibuffer is not active) would do the trick.

I wish _all_ messages would display ala minibuffer-message when the
user's editing in the minibuffer -- the current behavior (temporarily
ovewriting the minibuffer to show messages) is stupid and annoying,
especially given that many errors one gets are fairly trivial or
transient.

I made a patch to do this sometime before Emacs 21 was released, and
recall various issues popping up though... I think mainly it was the
somewhat more exotic users of message, like quail completion info etc.

-Miles

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