Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think all messages should be.  I've used experimental code to do that
>> in the past, and it was _really_ nice.  No stupid awkward pauses and
>> annoyance like the current method, everything just seemed *right*.
> How about allowing the minibuffer to have a header line, and display
> messages in the header line?  This limits the messages to be one line
> long, but it's probably easier to read, and it shouldn't be too much of
> a distraction.  Just my 2 cents.

In my setup (where I use a seperate minibuffer-only frame), this would
work OK, maybe, but in general eating up one more line of text
is undesirable.


        Stefan