GNU bug report logs - #21969
VC opens new window to display minimal messages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 13:56:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Merged with 21518

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 21969 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 21969 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david.reitter <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#21969: VC opens new window to display minimal messages
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:58:28 +0200

> Cc: 21969 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david.reitter <at> gmail.com
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:45:17 +0200
> 
> On 11/22/2015 06:08 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Why not always show the output in a window, and remove the code that
> > shows it in the echo area?
> 
> Because showing it in a buffer disturbs the window configuration, and 
> you have to press `q' to quit it. Seems reasonable to want to avoid that 
> when there's nothing to show.

How is that different from when Grep doesn't find any hits, or a
compile command produces no output?

IOW, we already have this kind of popping windows elsewhere in Emacs,
so why cannot this use case behave similarly?
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