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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs-Devel ' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: echo area feedback for minor modes [define-minor-mode patch]
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:14:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r73owf9t.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DAA88B4C-F453-40A5-9561-953A8E908D30@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:58:18 +0100")

> The bug is due to the fact that this macro doesn't show a message  unless
> the echo area is empty - it is not, however, due to the  (needless) previous
> output of the path to the menu item ("
> menu-bar options transient-mark-mode").

> I'm not sure, but I assume this behavior could be in order to allow any
> minor mode body to display its own message.

That was the original motivation indeed.

> If that's so, the below patch will allow minor modes to display the
> default message whenever the body doesn't show a new echo area message.

Sounds good to me,


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-23 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-22 15:58 echo area feedback for minor modes [define-minor-mode patch] David Reitter
2006-04-23 14:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-04-23 21:58 ` Richard Stallman

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