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bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Dec 2021 20:54:20 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> + if (NILP (preserve))
>> + {
>> + echo_area_buffer[0] = Qnil;
>> + message_cleared_p = true;
>> + }
>
> It an interesting idea, but I don't think this would be a
> backwards-compatible implementation. Today, the return value of
> clear-message-function isn't used, so we have to assume that users of
> that variable returns... whatever. Giving it semantics now would lead
> to the message area being preserved unexpectedly.
To be able to use clear-message-function in Emacs 29,
we need to issue a notification in Emacs 28 NEWS:
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8e38c3690c..69d00a8bf1 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -3327,6 +3327,10 @@ This new 'etc-authors-mode' provides font-locking for
displaying the
* Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 28.1
+---
+** The return value of 'clear-message-function' will change in later releases.
+When it will return a non-nil, the echo area won't be cleared.
+
+++
** Emacs now prints a backtrace when signaling an error in batch mode.
This makes debugging Emacs Lisp scripts run in batch mode easier. To
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- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/05
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/05
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/05
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/06
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/06
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/12/07
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/08
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/08
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/12/08
- bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle, Juri Linkov, 2021/12/12