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inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 77257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77257: inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:12:04 +0200

> From: Ship Mints <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:40:02 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>, 77257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.

That's unrelated: it controls the logging of messages in the
*Messages* buffer, not their display.  Binding inhibit-message non-nil
doesn't affect the logging in *Messages* in any way, nor should it.

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