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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > As for the other alternatives: no one wrote the code to implement 
> > > them; patches welcome.
> >
> > No one?  Did you look at the code two messages above?
>
> Is that part of Emacs?

No, but it could, it's a (kind of) patch.

> And I thought Drew wanted echo-area messages to pop in a separate 
> buffer.  The mode line is not a good place for showing messages, IMNSHO.

Hmmm... why not?  It's not perhaps the solution that would suit everyone, 
but I'd bet some users will prefer that to the way they are currently 
displayed.  A third option would indeed be a kind of pop-up buffer.  And 
there are probably other options.