Re: messages while the minibuffer is active

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Miles Bader wrote:

> Because it *hides* both your input and the prompt, *while* you're
> typing!  If it's a prompt that requires a single letter input, then you
> have to sit there and *wait* for the stupid thing to go away.

The message pops up in a similar same way in v20.x, no?  What is different
is that in v21 it doesn't go away until you type something.  Is that what
you find annoying? 

> Basically it's just *supremely* annoying (I find it hard to believe you
> don't think so).

Who said I didn't think so? ;-)  The fact that I asked a question doesn't 
mean I disagree, just that I don't understand exactly what are you saying.
(Perhaps a detailed description of the annoyance would help next time. ;-)

There's something else about the messages that I find unpleasant: if the 
message resizes the minibuffer, the minibuffer stays resized until you 
exit the minibuffer (i.e. until the recursive edit is over).  This looks 
awkward, to say the least, and resembles a bug, even if it isn't...