Re: Blunderbuss ".dir-locals.el" raises everything in its path!!

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I think `message' should be improved to collect all messages coming
>> in quick succession and display all of them appended to the echo area.

> Certainly not as the default behavior. Perhaps as an alternative behavior.

> There is lots of code, I'm sure, that depends on one message supplanting a
> previous message. That is, the user is _supposed_ to see only the latest
> message, not a concatenation of the last several messages.

Agreed, it needs to be a new function.

Maybe we could create a new function (notify-user MSG &rest ARGS) which
would return immediately but display something in the echo area (or at
the end of the minibuffer) for (at least?) notify-user-time seconds.

Several successive calls to it would just queue up messages that are
later displayed in turn (probably with some sort of "compaction" feature
so repeated messages don't bore the user to death).

Maybe it should be integrated/combined with the display-warning facility.


        Stefan