Subject: Re: bug#51132: [External] : bug#51132: Make sure user is doubly aware of finished complilations

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:59:47 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  "[email-masked]"
>  <[email-masked]>,  "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
>   "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:01:15 +0800
> 
> All I know is in emacs-version "27.1"
> I first chopped up the *scratch* buffer
> C-x 2 C-x 3 C-x 2 C-x 3...
> then did M-x compile, running "date" which finished right away,
> but none of the *scratch* buffers had anything in their modeline
> about it anymore at that point.

Then you have been amply punished for preventing yourself from seeing
anything useful in that session.  Try turning off
truncate-partial-width-windows.