Re: [External] : Re: Is there a way to avoid clobbering minibuffer by messages?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:28:16 +0000
> 
> Why not let users choose among several behaviors?
> 
>  1. Emacs 28+ approach: message and input in
>     minibuffer at the same time.
> 
>  2. Traditional approach: echo area displayed
>     temporarily, in place of the minibuffer.
> 
>  3. Minibuffer and echo area shown separately,
>     in different places?
> 
> And offer various choices for #3: how to show
> the echo area.

Users can already choose between 1 and 2: see set-message-function.

As for the other alternatives: no one wrote the code to implement
them; patches welcome.  (Of course, they all can be implemented via
set-message-function.)