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From: mcgill-vision!odyssee!pinard@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Francois Pinard)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Evanescent messages in minibuffer
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Date: 19 Mar 89 14:44:31 GMT
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In GNU Emacs 18.53.1 of Sat Mar  4 1989 on odyssee (berkeley-unix)

Once in a while, when I am typing in the mini-buffer, I just perceive
a message that is displayed and goes away immediately (probably
because I am typing).  The message does not stay long enough for
having any chance to read it (despite I can catch a few words
sometimes, maybe like "...not saved because..." or "...buffer has
shrunk...").

Typing is some kind of piped process, and if one decides to stop, he
cannot refrain a few queued characters to be flushed out to the
fingers (:-).  It seems that the message disappears at the first
character typed after it has been displayed.

Is there a way to read back these evanescent messages?
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Franc,ois Pinard                                    pinard@odyssee.qc.ca
(514) 279-0716           ``Vivement GNU!''          uunet!odyssee!pinard