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inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too

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From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>,
 77257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77257: inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:40:02 -0400

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On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU
Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> >> (let ((inhibit-message t)) (message "blah")) has the effect of clearing
> >> the echo area.  I'd expect the semantic of inhibit-message to be
> >> preventing all visible side effects of message --- not just some
> >> of them.
> >
> > If we disable clearing the echo area in that case, should we also
> > refrain from running echo-area-clear-hook?
> >
> > Stefan, do you see any potential problems in inhibiting clearing of
> > the echo area when inhibit-message is bound to a non-nil value?
>
> I'm not sufficiently familiar with the internals of `message` to have
> a firm opinion, but it seems to make sense to inhibit *all* the effects.
>

I bind (message-log-max nil) when I want message to be super quiet.

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