Re: messages while the minibuffer is active

[Kenichi Handa]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Gerd Moellmann <address@hidden> writes:
>>  > Yeah, that's what worried me when I looked over the code originally; the
>>  > echo-area stuff seems to have loads of hair to deal with multibyte
>>  > issues, whereas temp_echo_area_glyphs seems pretty cheap-n-cheerful...
>>  
>>  Let's hope that's not a bug of temp_echo_area_glyphs.  Did someone
>>  check that function during the introduction of Mule?

> I don't think it's a problem because temp_echo_area_glyphs is only ever
> used to insert a fixed set of simple strings.

As minibuffer-message accepts any Lisp string,
temp_echo_area_glyphs will given a multibyte string.  But,
fortunately, as temp_echo_area_glyphs uses insert_string, a
multibyte string is correctly inserted in a minibuffer.

For instance,
        C-x C-f ESC : (minibuffer-message "NON_ASCII_STRING") RET
surely shows "NON_ASCII_STRING" temporarily.

Is this kind of thing what you are worrying about?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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