bug#3579: 23.0.94; Customize: Cannot see error messages if use standalone minibuffer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Can't give a great recipe for this - you have to set up Emacs to use a
> standalone minibuffer (separate frame) only. That's all you need to
> do, I believe, to reproduce it.
>
> Edit an option value to make it invalid - e.g. edit an integer field
> to be 2.5. Then choose Set for Current Session in the State menu.  You
> will not see an error message in the minibuffer frame (which is where
> the echo area is), or anywhere else. The message does get logged to
> *Messages*, but the user gets no feedback at all.
>
> Note that mouseover messages appear fine in the echo area.  E.g. turn
> off tooltip-mode and put the mouse over the State button. You will see
> the text in the echo area. Likewise, other Emacs messages, as produced
> by `message' and `error', for instance, appear fine in the echo
> area. It is only Customize messages that do not appear anywhere.

This was four years ago.  Are you still seeing this problem?

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