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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 40774 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, ndame <at> protonmail.com
Subject: bug#40774: Error messages shouldn't be hidden when the user is idle
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:50:38 +0100

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

> +** The return value of 'clear-message-function' will change in later releases.
> +When it will return a non-nil, the echo area won't be cleared.

I think I opined that we probably shouldn't introduce any semantics for
these functions here, because it might break people's code in subtle
ways.

So if we want this, we should probably introduce a new facility of some
kind (and perhaps obsolete the old one), to have an orderly transition.

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