Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.05.2020 21:56, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> To clarify: set-message-function is not supposed to affect all the
> ways we have to show something in the echo area, it is only supposed
> to affect calls to 'message', because that's how messages to the user
> are printed.
>
> eval-last-sexp uses prin1 to display the result, so it is not
> affected, as intended.

But aren't all echo area displays targeted at the user anyway?

I'm not saying the current behavior is necessarily "broken", but perhaps 
we could enhance it further.