Re: Where to show message output while inputting [was: New multi-command facility displays in the wrong echo area]

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Shifting existing stuff around could be distracting or annoying for 
> > > some users.
> >
> > It's what eldoc already does for a similar situation, and I haven't 
> > seen complaints about this.  IMO it's elegant to solve that problem in 
> > that way.
>
> Eldoc's purpose is different from the purpose of displaying echo-area 
> messages.  For example, nothing significantly bad can happen if you miss 
> the Eldoc's hints, but the same is not true for some important echo-area 
> messages.

AFAICS you can't miss them with the proposed solution: they are displayed 
on the left of the mode-line, with a different background and foreground. 
The echo-are messages are IMO much more visible there than when they are 
placed at EOB in the minibuffer between brackets.

> And I think using the mode line for Isearch would be jarring.

Remember that such cases will remain exceptional: they will happen only 
when the minibuffer is active on the current frame.  I've been using this 
for a day now, enabling that exceptional behavior from time to time, and 
don't find it troubling.