Re: momentary-string-display

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 12/27/06, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> momentary-string-display is a kludge, which should be used as little
> as possible.

I couldn't agree more.

> It is used very little, so it has little potential to do
> any harm.

Still, points 1) to 3) in my post would be fixed or circumvented just by adding

 (setq pos (point))

after

 (goto-char pos)

and clarifying the docstring to note that, when passed a marker, only
the position is used, not the buffer.

> It would be clean to make momentary-string-display use overlays
> and not change the buffer text at all.  Would you like to try
> writing that?

I assume you're asking to Takaaki :)

> But let's not delay the release for it.

Sure. What is delaying the release, BTW?

                   /L/e/k/t/u