Don't issue kmacro hint if echo area is in use (Bug#3412).

* lisp/kmacro.el (kmacro-call-macro): Don't issue hint message if the
echo area is in use (Bug#3412).

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 8836a3866ffd3696ccfc71048f2b656f4393806d..23d7045532ceb6e53780cacf074df42a439c9476 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-06-24  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+       * kmacro.el (kmacro-call-macro): Don't issue hint message if the
+       echo area is in use (Bug#3412).
+
 2010-06-22  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
        * textmodes/texinfmt.el (texinfo-format-region)

diff --git a/lisp/kmacro.el b/lisp/kmacro.el
index c2bedf35339553a0afa630a6b51e6950089b3a84..439c7383223c6c7e5e678aa3584854ccae1e20fb 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/kmacro.el
+++ b/lisp/kmacro.el
@@ -642,11 +642,13 @@ others, use \\[kmacro-name-last-macro]."
                       kmacro-call-repeat-key)))
       (setq repeat-key-str (format-kbd-macro (vector repeat-key) nil))
       (while repeat-key
-       (message "(Type %s to repeat macro%s)"
-                repeat-key-str
-                (if (and kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg
-                         arg (> arg 1))
-                    (format " %d times" arg) ""))
+       ;; Issue a hint to the user, if the echo area isn't in use.
+       (unless (current-message)
+         (message "(Type %s to repeat macro%s)"
+                  repeat-key-str
+                  (if (and kmacro-call-repeat-with-arg
+                           arg (> arg 1))
+                      (format " %d times" arg) "")))
        (if (equal repeat-key (read-event))
            (progn
              (clear-this-command-keys t)