GNU bug report logs - #44334
28.0.50; [eldoc] Impossible to avoid creating the *eldoc for xxx* buffer

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 44334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#44334: 28.0.50; [eldoc] Impossible to avoid creating the
 *eldoc for xxx* buffer
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:39:31 +0000

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The buffer is an implementation detail for the member of 
>> eldoc-display-functions that writes to the echo area,
>> so it's hard to do away with.  However, it should be reasonably 
>> easy to "hide it", as Xu suggests, by prefixing its name with a
>> space. The the eldoc-display-in-eldoc-buffer display function
>> just renames it to not have that space, promoting it 
>> to visible.
>
> So the space-prefixed buffer name can (should?) be the default?

Yes. Or rather: by default, if you just use ElDoc like you always did in
Emacs <28, that buffer shouldn't be bothering you.  I'll see what the
best implementation for doing that is, but I do suspect it's hiding it
with a space prefix in the buffer name.

João

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