From: Juri Linkov<juri@linkov.net>
Cc:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,38457@debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:24:30 +0200
The problem is in usability: it would be very annoying if the message
displayed at the end of the minibuffer's contents would not vanish
after some time. minibuffer-message removes the message
after 2 sec by default.
But 'message' always behaved this way, so using a timeout is change in
behavior, whereas my proposal leaves the behavior unchanged, and just
makes the prompt still visible, so it avoids confusing the user. User
confusion was the main issue that triggered the series of changes we
are discussing, and it will be resolved by my proposal.