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bug#35887: 26.1; global-eldoc-mode minibuffer noise is very annoying
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#35887: 26.1; global-eldoc-mode minibuffer noise is very annoying |
Date: |
Mon, 27 May 2019 23:30:56 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> The minibuffer is where I expect to find useful editor feedback. When
>> things happen there I look to see what it is telling me. Sometimes it
>> is an error message. Sometimes it is direct dialog interaction such
>> as for find-file. Sometimes it is simply information such as "Mark
>> set". But with global-eldoc-mode enabled it is continously posting
>> distractions in the minibuffer that I must look at, read and
>> comprehend, and then ignore. This increases the editing workload.
>> This increases use fatigue.
>
> I find error messages like "Beginning of buffer" (and the accompanying
> beep) and informative messages like "Mark set" much more annoying.
> What's worse: I see no practical way to turn these off which means
> that I have to decide whether I want to use the mouse-wheel to scroll
> an Emacs buffer or to switch off my loudspeakers. And obviously the
> echo area and the *Messages* buffer get crowded with these completely
> useless (for me) informations.
Why customizing inhibit-message to t doesn't inhibit these messages?
> So while I agree with you that ‘global-eldoc-mode’ should never have
> been enabled by default, I consider it a minor annoyance compared to
> the ones I described above. At least you've found out how to turn it
> off.
I turn ‘global-eldoc-mode’ off too, but I think it should be enabled
by default to demonstrate to newbies that Emacs has the same feature
that their IDEs have.
bug#35887: 26.1; global-eldoc-mode minibuffer noise is very annoying, Drew Adams, 2019/05/26