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inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77257: closed (inhibit-message should inhibit echo area
 clearing too)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:48:06 +0000

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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:58:35 -0400

(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.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: acorallo <at> gnu.org, dancol <at> dancol.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com,
 77257-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77257: inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:47:14 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org,  Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>,  Andrea
>  Corallo <acorallo <at> gnu.org>,  77257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 11:01:33 -0400
> 
> > That said, if everyone else (CC'ed) think I'm too cautious, I will
> > make t inhibit clearing the echo-area as well.
> 
> I'm in favor of the change.  I think it's very odd that (message "Haha")
> ends up just clearing the echo area.  To me, the purpose of
> `inhibit-message` is not to hide the messages that would be displayed
> but to prevent those messages from interfering with other messages.

So we have two in favor and none against.  So I've now installed a
change that will disable clearing of echo-area messages when
inhibit-message is non-nil, and I'm closing this bug.

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