Re: Intelligent stacking of messages in the echo area

[Ihor Radchenko]

> Then maybe we should allow a function as well.

Good idea. Instead of piling up heuristics into set-multi-message, it
may be better to run an abnormal hook. See the attached. 

> The idea about filtering driven by regular expressions.

Do you know a good regexp to match a keystroke sequence?
It seems easier for me to compare with this-command-keys.

Best,
Ihor

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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 17:24:29 +0800
>> 
>> > 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. 
>
> Then maybe we should allow a function as well.
>
>> >> 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.
>
> The idea about filtering driven by regular expressions.