Stefan, all,

I work with this patch for two days now and it works perfectly fine.
The redisplay works fine without any extras rendering operation
(I instrumented a little bit to check that point).

I will be very grateful if someone could try it, review it and tell me
if something is wrong with it.

With the patch applied and the following :

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create " *Minibuf-0*")
  (insert "Information displayed in echo area :)"))

you should see the "Information displayed in echo area :)" instead
of the empty usual message.

I'm currently working on a package which displays some more usefull
information like the date, the battery status, the jabber status, the mail
status and anything you may want in the echo area through the " *Minibuf-0*"
buffer.

Thank you and Happy New Year 2012 !

Jérémy

2011/12/30 Jérémy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@gmai...>

> 2011/8/22 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro....>
>
>> > Yet, the displayed information is not completely stable. What I mean is
>> > that if I move the cursor in another buffer, the echo area is sometimes
>> > cleared. It's a little bit annoying. How could I fix this without
>> > advising several cursor displacement function ?
>>
>> I don't know enough about this code to be able to answer.  You're going
>> to have to investigate which code does this "clearing" and what calls
>> it, to then be able to figure out what's the best way to address the
>> problem (we can change the C code for that in 24.2 if needed).
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> I finally get time to work again on this global information area. I
> think the use of " *Minibuf-0*" proposal is really interesting since the
> echo area is most of the time useless and the global information are not
> really useful when I'm using the minibuffer. So I tried to figure out
> why it didn't work the way you said.
>
> The problem is, considering I had put data in the " *Minibuf-0*", these
> data are not displayed in the echo area. However, the " *Minibuf-0*" is
> displayed each time I do a switch-to-buffer call. But once I type, the
> echo area is cleared.
>
> First, each time I type, the clear_message(1, 0) is called even when the
> echo area is already cleared. This call looks useless and is part of the
> cause of the behavior described above.
>
> Second, when the echo area is clearing it does not redisplay the
> miniwindow. So the " *Minibuf-0*" is not displayed as expected.
>
> I tested this patch with emacs -Q, emacs -Q -nw and with my whole
> configuration. Everything works perfectly fine and as
> expected. Moreover, I verified that this patch does not generate extras
> miniwindow redisplay.
>
> Please merge it or review it,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jérémy
>
> --
> One Emacs to rule them all
>



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