GNU bug report logs - #40774
Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ndame <ndame <at> protonmail.com>

Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:23:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #47 received at 40774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ndame <ndame <at> protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "40774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <40774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is
 idle
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:10:36 +0000

>
> But that's exactly the problem I see with your proposed strategy:
> when Emacs prints a message, it is never idle, by definition.


But the condition is not "when Emacs is idle", but "when the user
is idle". So Emacs can do some processing, running some timers,
printing messages while the user is idle in Emacs, right?
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