From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: messages override minibuffer input Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:24:49 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190593539 15579 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 00:25:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: , "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 02:25:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZblU-000409-8n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:25:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZblR-0006j4-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZblP-0006iz-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:25:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IZblO-0006in-GE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:25:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZblO-0006ik-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IZblN-0001rS-9r; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:25:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l8O0PMBe010360; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id l8NM5prF005830; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:25:22 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-220.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3236792381190593465; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:24:25 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:79637 Archived-At: > Yet quite generally, it confuses me when I type something and > suddenly the text I have typed disappears. Even when the message > disappears again when I continue typing, a smooth work flow requires > that I know the last character I typed before the message appeared > so that I know where to continue typing while something else is > displayed. > > If we put such messages at the end, that may cause the minibuffer > to grow by a line. Would you find that disturbing? > > If not, perhaps the thing to do is to put the message below the > current input, always growing the minibuffer. Or put the message > above the minibuffer contents. What would you think of that? Please don't do that. In general, let's try to keep echo-area messages to one line. If they happen to be so long that they wrap, so be it. So I'd request that we append without a newline.