Subject: Re: 23.3; message writing slows emacs

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:32:33 +0200

Dave Abrahams <[email-masked]> writes:

> It would be good, IMO, to delay updating the visible message in the
> minibuffer line long enough to be sure that the message just written
> isn't about to be overwritten so fast that the user couldn't read it
> anyway.

Over-enthusiastic messaging isn't pretty, but slowing down Emacs just to
display normal "informative" messages would be really bad, in my
opinion.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/