bug#12833: 24.2.50; Avoid questions asked in the echo area to be overridden by messages

[Jan Djärv]

Hello. 

4 dec 2012 kl. 21:14 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

>> 6. Schedule a date from that item with `C-c C-s': the prompt for the
>> date gets hidden (for something like 5 seconds) by the "require"
>> message (though, that happened before displaying the prompt).
> 
>> This is reproducible ever and ever, in the same session.
> 
> It shouldn't be 5 seconds, but more like 2 seconds (or rather "whatever
> time it takes to display the messages plus setup the minibuffer plus 2s").
> 
> IOW this is `minibuffer-message-timeout'.
> 
> What behavior would you like to see instead?

Not speaking for the op, but I would like that messages only went to *Messages* 
and was never shown in the minibuffer if there is a prompt there.

Semantic/CEDET is a pain to use because of this with its useless "parsing..." 
messages. 

     Jan D.