GNU bug report logs - #78944
31.0.50; Minibuffer completion

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 78944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#78944: 31.0.50; Minibuffer completion
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:51:12 +0300

On 23/07/2025 10:38, Daniel Mendler via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
>>> In case the message is really needed at least guard it behind
>>> an option?
>> Do you have some concrete case where it gets in the way?
> I think about places like auto completion where the APIs are called by a
> timer or somehow in the back, decoupled from direct user actions. There
> are many such uses where purity is assumed and where such a message
> rather hurts than helps.

The current completion UI could be also showing some info pertaining to 
the current completion, in the echo area.

Or if the above is disabled, eldoc might be using the echo area for its 
thing, also coding-related.

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