Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 18.05.2020 11:32, martin rudalics wrote:
> I use a minibuffer child frame all the time.  It is invisible whenever I
> don't need it, promptly shows up on any window where I want to interact
> with it and resizes just like any normal minibuffer window.

Could you share your config? Perhaps we could make it into a package,  too.

> I do not use the echo area for ElDoc though and occasionally the echo
> area noisily pops up to tell me that I'm at the beginning or end of a
> buffer.  I've been told that I have to live with the latter.

Now that we have set-message-function and clear-message-function, 
couldn't you move message display somewhere else?