Re: Is there a way to avoid clobbering minibuffer by messages?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:40:40 +0800
> From: Platon Pronko <platon7pronko@gmail.com>
> 
> On 2023-03-30 17:35, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:02:58 +0800
> >> From: Platon Pronko <platon7pronko@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> What was supposed to change in Emacs 28?
> > 
> > The echo-area messages are now displayed without overwriting the
> > minibuffer contents.
> 
> Yes, they are not overwriting - they are appended to the minibuffer contents, 
> which is often ugly and looks like something got broken (less broken than 
> when it directly overwrote the buffer, of course).

If that is what you see, then it's the intended behavior.  That you
are not used to it doesn't mean it's incorrect or broken.
Functionally, it does the job, and we don't have any better
alternatives for the case when a message should be shown when the
minibuffer is active.