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bug#9096: Don't clear the echo area automatically at every command execu
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#9096: Don't clear the echo area automatically at every command execution |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:16:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:
> emacs -Q
> (message "Hello")
> C-p
>
> => The message disappears, although C-p does not use minibuffer/echo
> area in any way.
>
> I've always found this behaviour annoying and counter-productive. It
> often happens that I don't even notice a message because of this.
>
> If someone actually likes the current behaviour, could we at least have
> an option to prevent commands from clearing the echo area until
> necessary?
I think that would be very confusing -- you'd have old, outdated
messages in the echo area basically forever (i.e., until the next
message).
So I'm closing this as a "wontfix".
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- bug#9096: Don't clear the echo area automatically at every command execution,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=