Subject: Re: bug#67393: 29.1; Slow to open file if autosave exists

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:23:14 +0200

>>> This is a feature: we let the user see the message and wait for 1 sec
>>> after showing it, to make sure this particular message is not
>>> immediately replaced by some others.  From after-find-file:
>>>
>>>       (when (and warn msg)
>>> 	(message "%s" msg)
>>> 	(or not-serious (sit-for 1 t))))
>>>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> (The value of not-serious is nil in this case.)
>>>
>>> This is not a bug.
>>
>> I'm therefore closing this bug report.
>
> This is indeed not a bug, but I am wondering if it would be better to
> utilize `set-multi-message' somehow. We are certainly able to display
> multiple recent messages in the echo area. Then, why not allow to keep
> more important ones visible for a time period without blocking?

It's not easy to temporarily enable `set-multi-message',
since it's not clear at what moment to disable it afterwards.