Re: Annoying paren match messages in minibuffer

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Say you have a M-x minibuffer open but you've switched to some other
>> buffer, say a shell buffer and you're using completion and the
>> completion code needs to say "Sole completion": your suggestion would
>> cause a " [Sole completion]" message to be added at the end of the M-x
>> minibuffer (i.e. an unrelated minibuffer), rather than replacing
>> it altogether.

> No, it would not, because I would not use the DWIM function
> (`msg-maybe-in-minibuffer') to display such a message.  I would not,
> because the shell completion code in question is not using the
> minibuffer, and it is unlikely that it would ever be called from
> the minibuffer.

Huh?  The shell completion is used in M-! 

Also I have some work-in-progress patches to replace some of the shell
and lisp-symbol completion code (and sym-comp.el) to use
minibuffer-complete.  There very much is a need for this completion code
to magically decide when to use message and when to use
minibuffer-message, and until now the best test I've found is
minibufferp, not active-minibuffer-window.


        Stefan