Re: Potential problem of minibuffer-message

[Miles Bader]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> > How about using an overlay with an `after-string' property, located at
> > the end of the minibuffer, for the minibuffer-message message itself?
> > Then there's no modification/insertion at all...
> 
> Unfortunately, the cursor is shown after that `after-string'
> in that case.

Oh yeah, that address@hidden& problem -- I ran in the same thing when I was 
trying
to do my `error messages don't obscure the users input' patch a long time
ago.

That behavior really should simply be fixed, it's stupid
(but unfortunately, not entirely trivial to fix either).

-Miles
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