Subject: Re: bug#18844: Trunk: typing in minibuffer gets spuriously echoed in mode line.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:23:15 +0200

> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:53:32 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
> 
> With the "latest" trunk (of about 2014-10-26 08:00 GMT), start emacs -Q.
> Type in "M-: (setq" and wait ~half a second.  The word "setq" is
> spuriously echoed at the start of the mode line.

It's a feature: Emacs shows you some minimal documentation on what you
type.