Subject: bug#32243: 26.1; eldoc takes priority over flymake-diagnostics

From: João Távora <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:48:22 +0100

A naive fix for this could be

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
index 49ba71fb1b..5fafd066db 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ eldoc-minibuffer-message
                 (when (stringp format-string)
                   (apply #'format-message format-string args)))
           (force-mode-line-update)))
-    (apply 'message format-string args)))
+    (unless (and (current-message)
+             (not (string= (current-message) "Quit")))
+      (apply 'message format-string args))))

 (defun eldoc-message (&optional string)
   "Display STRING as an ElDoc message if it's non-nil.

which imitates what help-at-pt-maybe-display-does.

It seems to work more or less well in my testing, but not always. Obviously
I haven't studied the full impact of this.

Dmitry, do you have any thoughts on this?

-- 
João Távora