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Re: controlling echo during mouse-dragging
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John Paul Wallington |
Subject: |
Re: controlling echo during mouse-dragging |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:58:05 +0100 |
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"David Vanderschel" <DJV4@Austin.RR.com> writes:
>> Please post some example code, preferably pared-down to essentials,
>> that demonstrates the problem.
>
> Actually, I am close to giving up now. I think I
> understand the problem. The fact is that any message
> in the echo area is erased on occurrence of the next
> input event. Normally mouse movement is not treated
> as an event, so one is not used to it causing erasure
> in the echo area. However, having invoked
> track-mouse, I am saying that mouse movement _is_ an
> event, so the echo area gets erased every time the
> cursor moves to a new character position. I do not
> see how to get around it.
Maybe you could display your message in the minibuffer rather than the
echo area? See `emerge-show-file-name' for example. It's hard to
tell whether that would make a difference without a concrete example
though.