Re: messages while the minibuffer is active

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, John Wiegley wrote:

>  3. While this question is in the minibuffer, a message gets
>     displayed.
> 
>  4. You come back to your machine, and basically there is a blank
>     minibuffer with the cursor down there.

Does the question get redisplayed if you press a key, e.g. C-f?

I think this is another manifestation of the problem that I described: 
the message doesn't always go away until you type something, thus
obscuring the previous contents of the echo area.