GNU bug report logs - #34939
Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying

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Message #89 received at 34939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: pinkanon pinkanon <pinkanon.pinkanon <at> yandex.ru>, 34939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34939: Some minibuffer behaviour is annoying
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 03:11:34 +0300

On 09.04.2019 2:59, Drew Adams wrote:

> But you _can_ see it.  Before and after the `message',
> which disappears as soon as you type your next input
> char or perform some other action.  Seeing happens
> in time, over time.

Yeah, it's annoying and creates a bad image for the editor. Just see the 
original report.

>> I'd think that much would be obvious.
> 
> It's too general and abstract.  Too blanket, too
> black-&-white.  Too simplistic, dogmatic.
> 
> Sometimes in a dialog what's _wanted_ is to interrupt.
> And there are different ways of interrupting, each of
> which can be useful, helpful.

If we do get around to having message always delegate to 
minibuffer-message, there will be another function for "interrupting" 
messages. It would require you to do some compatibility shimming in your 
code, though.

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