minibuffer-message-timeout has no effect

[Drew Adams]

FYI -

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden Behalf
Of Stefan Monnier
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:59 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Q on minibuffer-message


> I tried binding `minibuffer-message-timeout' (to nil and to 0), to no
> avail (it seemed to have no effect).

Looks like a bug.

        Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: Lennart Borgman [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:13 AM
To: Drew Adams
Subject: Re: Q on minibuffer-message

It is surely a bug. Fsit_for should be using
minibuffer-message-timeout,
but it just uses 2 for 2 seconds (which you observered).


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