Re: Intelligent stacking of messages in the echo area

[Ihor Radchenko]

> I'd rather think a better way would be to have a variable which allows
> to filter messages by regular expressions: any message that matches a
> regexp in a list will not be stacked.

It is a good idea. However, generating a universal regexp for, say, eldoc
may be challenging. 

>> Also, it would be great to avoid stacking the echo-keystrokes, but I
>> have no clue how to detect them.
>
> See above.

I cannot find what you refer to.

Best,
Ihor


Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 11:50:48 +0800
>> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
>> 
>> A slightly improved version of the code, which prevents stacking
>> potentially "spammy" messages (like from eldoc or
>> org-display-outline-path). The messages are detected by looking at
>> messages-log-max variable, which is typically set to nil by such
>> functions.
>
> I'd rather think a better way would be to have a variable which allows
> to filter messages by regular expressions: any message that matches a
> regexp in a list will not be stacked.
>
>> Also, it would be great to avoid stacking the echo-keystrokes, but I
>> have no clue how to detect them.
>
> See above.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong 
University, Xi'an, China
Email: address@hidden, address@hidden