Re: minibuffer-message binds inhibit-quit

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:26:17 -0700
> 
> But it doesn't follow that that command, which calls `minibuffer-message', is
> finished as soon as the message is displayed. You can't argue only from a
> specific example: TAB is done as soon as it displays its message, but 
> `my-cmd',
> bound to `C-M-S-H-backspace' might not be done as soon as it displays a 
> message.

No, that's not an example, that's a general principle: in Emacs,
redisplay happens only when Emacs is idle.  Ergo, if you see the
message on the screen, the command that produced it is done.