Subject: Re: bug#77257: inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too

From: Daniel Colascione <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:09:34 -0400

On March 27, 2025 8:23:40 AM EDT, [email-masked] wrote:
>I'm afraid the 2022 maintainer's edict takes priority:
>
>"No documentation promised that the previous message will not be
>cleared when inhibit-message is set.  We just avoid displaying new
>messages."
>
>https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=58788

Thanks for digging that up. I'd suggest revisiting that resolution. The no-visible-effect behavior is more useful and intuitive than what we have now, and I'm having an hard time seeing how fixing this bug would break anything.