Re: Is there a way to avoid clobbering minibuffer by messages?

[Gregory Heytings]

> I use ivy and tramp, and I often notice that tramp messages are output 
> to minibuffer while I'm in the process of connecting to the host, which 
> breaks formatting of the minibuffer. I also noticed messages messing up 
> minibuffer contents on many other occasions.
>
> Is there a way to put messages somewhere else? Or maybe the other way 
> around - keep messages in minibuffer, but use ivy in some other 
> minibuffer?

You can display these messages whereever you want by defining your own 
variant of set-minibuffer-message and doing (setq set-message-function 
'my-set-minibuffer-message).