Re: enable-local-variables 'maybe

[Roland Winkler]

On Wed Feb 13 2002 Richard Stallman wrote:
> I think this is an AUC-Tex bug; LaTeX-menu-update should
> not display any echo area messages, neither directly nor
> through its subroutines.  Please forward this to the AUC-Tex
> developers; they should be able to fix it easily.

Is there a general rule, that package developpers should follow
here, under which circumstances a lisp function should not display
any echo area messages? Is this rule documented somewhere?

I am asking because it seems to me that the problem I have here with
auctex is, indeed, a more general problem that happens with other
packages, too. See my follow-up mail on bibtex-mode that gives me
essentially the same problem when enable-local-variables' value is
'maybe.

Thanks a lot,

Roland