bug#13752: Suggestions regarding the minibuffer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

E Sabof <esabof@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Would it be possible to add a property to error symbols that would prevent the error
> message from appearing in the mini-buffer? I see little utility in  messages such a "End
> of buffer", "Beginning of buffer" and "Text read-only". It could be seen as
> implementation logic leaking into UI.

Hm.  I thought that the introduction of `set-message-function' would
allow users to filter messages like this, but

(setq set-message-function (lambda (string)
			     'no))

only seems to inhibit messages from `message', not from `signal'?  I'm
having some difficulty tracing the logic here...  Anybody know whether
this is by design?

> 2. Could an option be created that wouldn't allow messages (regular or
> error) from being displayed, while the minibuffer is active and
> selected?

This problem has mostly been fixed in Emacs 28 -- messages are appended
instead of overwriting the minibuffer.

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