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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: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Subject: bug#77257: closed (Re: bug#77257: inhibit-message should inhibit
 echo area clearing too)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:48:06 +0000

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Your bug report

#77257: inhibit-message should inhibit echo area clearing too

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 77257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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