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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:10:36 -0400

> Type in "M-: (setq" and wait ~half a second.  The word "setq" is
> spuriously echoed at the start of the mode line.

If only "setq" is echoed, then it's a bug.
If "setq: ([SYM VAL]...)" is echoed (or something similar), then it's
a feature.

        Stefan