Re: problem with the "You can run the command ..." message

[Michael Heerdegen]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Try, with a region
>
>   M-x count-region RET

Do you mean `count-words-region' maybe? - because Emacs doesn't have
that command.

> You see the answer in the echo area for only a short while,
> then it gets replaced with
>
>   You can run the command ‘count-region’ with M-x cou-r RET
>
> so you can't see the data queried for just one second ago.
> Not good!

Can be slightly annoying yes, the usefulness of the feature is arguable.

But note that if you wait for another short while, the result is back -
and it stays.

Michael.