From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
acm@muc.de, juri@linkov.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:55:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2010132327220453.24823@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bedd6ef-c49a-4e0e-b0e4-4e3c6b8b79ce@default>
>
> But sure, if Emacs covers your entire display, and if there's nothing
> that you're willing to obscure (whitespace, menu-bar, tool-bar, frame
> title, mode-line, buffer text,...) then yeah, something will be
> obscured.
>
Full-screen Emacs is (I believe) very common nowadays.
>
> The only purely full-measure is to dedicate an area for the output.
> That has advantages but also the disadvantage of losing real estate for
> the frequent periods when nothing's being output.
>
So this full-measure is still a half-measure ;-)
>
> More to the point, it's an optional mode. Those (like me) who don't
> want it on all the time turn it off, and don't need to complain
> anywhere.
>
The set-message-function is also optional, you can turn it off easily.
And in fact with it you could create something like what you want: a
separate frame with a buffer in which set-message-function would put
messages. A first attempt:
(progn
(select-frame (make-frame '((minibuffer . nil) (name . "Drew's Echo Area"))))
(set-frame-height nil 1)
(switch-to-buffer " *Drew's Echo Area")
(setq-local mode-line-format nil)
(setq cursor-in-non-selected-windows nil))
(defun set-minibuffer-message (message)
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer " *Drew's Echo Area") (erase-buffer) (insert message)) t)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-13 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-13 17:31 Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area] Drew Adams
2020-10-13 18:39 ` Where to show message output while inputting Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-10-13 19:42 ` Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area] Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-13 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-13 20:59 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
[not found] ` <2bedd6ef-c49a-4e0e-b0e4-4e3c6b8b79ce@default>
2020-10-13 21:55 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2020-10-14 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-14 14:58 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-14 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-14 21:22 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-15 1:52 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <87eelo6iio.fsf@blind.guru>
2020-10-24 17:31 ` Drew Adams
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