GNU bug report logs - #77257
inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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.
This bug report was last modified 96 days ago.

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