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Improvements of document of minibuffer-message-timeout

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>
Subject: bug#24123: closed (Re: bug#24123: Improvements of document of
 minibuffer-message-timeout)
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:31:02 +0000

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#24123: Improvements of document of minibuffer-message-timeout

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>
Cc: 24123-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24123: Improvements of document of minibuffer-message-timeout
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:30:15 +0300

> From: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>
> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:10:12 -0700
> 
> The current documentation of minibuffer-message-timeout seems a bit
> confusing:
> 
>     How long to display an echo-area message when the minibuffer is active.
> 
> Maybe it's better to say "How many seconds to display an echo-area
> message...."?

Thanks, I added a sentence to the effect that the value should be in
seconds, if it is a number.

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From: Hong Xu <hong <at> topbug.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Improvements of document of minibuffer-message-timeout
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:10:12 -0700

Hi,

The current documentation of minibuffer-message-timeout seems a bit
confusing:

    How long to display an echo-area message when the minibuffer is active.

Maybe it's better to say "How many seconds to display an echo-area
message...."?

Hong

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