RE: isearch transient msgs (e.g. case insensitive) - users to be ableto adjust the sit-for time

[Drew Adams]

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See thread below. The solution is probably to use a user option for the
sit-for time, instead of hardcoding it. There is some disagreement about
which user option to use.


From: Miles Bader [mailto:address@hidden

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:19:09PM +0300, Juri Linkov wrote:
>  Actually, there are only two such places:
> `isearch-toggle-case-fold' and `isearch-complete'.  I think that
> `minibuffer-message-timeout' is an appropriate user option for them:

No, `minibuffer-message-timeout' means something different -- it's the
timeout for messages which _overwrite_ the minibuffer, which are quite
different than messages that are appended to it (namely that overriting the
minibuffer in the first place is a completely sucky UI, and a user may want
to make its duration very short, but keep appended messages for a long
time).

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Stallman [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 7:34 AM
To: Drew Adams
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: isearch transient msgs (e.g. case insensitive) - users to
be ableto adjust the sit-for time


    Any chance users could be able to adjust (via an option) the sit-for
time
    for the transient display of isearch messages like "case insensitive"?

    In Emacs 20, such messages persisted slightly longer - long enough to
see
    them

Can you state precisely how to produce one of these messages?