bug#33076: 26; `read-only-mode' messages

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

> This is output by the define-minor-mode machinery:
>
>            (if (called-interactively-p 'any)
>                (progn
>                  ,(if (and globalp (not variable))
>                       `(customize-mark-as-set ',mode))
>                  ;; Avoid overwriting a message shown by the body,
>                  ;; but do overwrite previous messages.
>                  (unless (and (current-message)
>                               (not (equal ,last-message
>                                           (current-message))))
>                    (let ((local ,(if globalp "" " in current buffer")))
>                    (message ,(format "%s %%sabled%%s" pretty-name)
>                             (if ,getter "en" "dis") local)))))
>
> So it looks easy enough to change, but it's a change that would affect
> all minor mode.  Do we want all interactive minor modes to message the
> buffer names?  I don't know what I think of it myself.
>
> Perhaps mainly because some buffer names are so long that this would
> increase the echo area sometimes, which is slightly annoying.

After thinking about this for a year, I've come to the conclusion that
this would be more annoying than informative, so I'm closing this as a
"wontfix".

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