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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Geoff Gole <geoffgole@gmail.com>,
	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:27:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wpfnjur.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901131555.n0DFtvke010180@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:55:57 -0800 (PST)")

>> I think all messages should be.  I've used experimental code to do that
>> in the past, and it was _really_ nice.  No stupid awkward pauses and
>> annoyance like the current method, everything just seemed *right*.
> How about allowing the minibuffer to have a header line, and display
> messages in the header line?  This limits the messages to be one line
> long, but it's probably easier to read, and it shouldn't be too much of
> a distraction.  Just my 2 cents.

In my setup (where I use a seperate minibuffer-only frame), this would
work OK, maybe, but in general eating up one more line of text
is undesirable.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-12 12:18 Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer Geoff Gole
2009-01-12 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-13  2:26   ` Miles Bader
2009-01-13 14:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-13 15:55     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-13 18:27       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-13 18:33         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-14 22:15           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 22:30             ` Drew Adams
2009-01-13 13:58   ` Geoff Gole
2009-01-13 18:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-13 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 13:46   ` Chong Yidong
2009-01-14 14:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 15:29       ` Drew Adams
2009-01-14 21:12         ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 21:52           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 22:22             ` Drew Adams
2009-01-14 23:10               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-15  0:52                 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-15  2:41                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-16 19:10                     ` Drew Adams
2009-01-16 20:52                       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-16 23:42                         ` Drew Adams
2009-01-17  2:15                           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 22:13           ` Drew Adams
2009-01-14 21:12       ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 21:53         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-14 18:56   ` Geoff Gole
2009-01-14 21:14     ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-14 22:20       ` Geoff Gole
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-14 23:16 Chetan Pandya

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