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bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 00:35:16 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

>> > I haven't been following this thread.  But it looks
>> > like this will use `minibuffer-message' for errors
>> > raised during minibuffer input, and block `message',
>> > except for logging.  Is that right?
>>
>> No, it won't block messages.
>
> It will block `message', not messages.  It will hijack
> `message' to effect instead `minibuffer-message'.
>
> That's not right or fair.  Code that calls `message'
> should get `message' behavior.

What `message' are you talking about?  Currently `message'
is not called during error processing at all.

>> Currently it requires the user to wait 2 seconds
>> before the user can see the minibuffer contents again.
>
> No, it does not.  User input cancels the `message'
> text.

It's dangerous and error-prone to type any keys blindly
while the minibuffer contents is obscured by the error message.





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