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29.0.90; with-delayed-message fails in combination with inhibit-message

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Message #38 received at 63253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, larsi <at> gnus.org, 63253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63253: 29.0.90; with-delayed-message fails in combination
 with inhibit-message
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 11:15:54 -0400

>> The code already falls back to a default behavior of displaying the
>> message in the echo area when calls to ELisp can't be used.
>
> You mean, the changes that you just installed?  If so, that is AFAIU
> conditioned on garbage_collection_inhibited, which doesn't necessarily
> disable Lisp calls from delayed messages in all situations.  Plus, we
> might at some point decide that garbage_collection_inhibited is not
> necessary in probably_quit.
>
> What I meant was to completely disable customizing
> set-message-function for delayed messages.  We don't have to support
> that, and the fact that we call 'message' is just an implementation
> detail.  If nothing else, this will make the effect on delayed
> messages consistent no matter when and how they are actually
> displayed.

Hmm... I think "customizing `set-message-function` for delayed messages"
is actually desirable (which is why I left a FIXME in my patch).
So I regard the new behavior as a bug, just one that is hopefully less
severe than the problem it intends to avoid.


        Stefan

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