Avoid spamming view-mode-enter help message

By default, entering view-mode echoes a usage message.  This is
particularly helpful with non-nil view-read-only, to notify the user
that view-mode has been enabled.  It is less useful and more spammy,
however, if view-mode is (possibly inadvertently) entered from some
non-interactive code running in the background, such as when a major
mode is enabled in a temporary buffer for text formatting
purposes (bug#44629).

* lisp/jsonrpc.el (jsonrpc-events-buffer, initialize-instance): Use
buffer-read-only in place of read-only-mode for non-interactive use.
* lisp/view.el (view-mode-enter): Inhibit help message if either
view-inhibit-help-message is non-nil, or view-mode-enter was called
from an interactive command.  Suggested by João Távora
<joaotavora@gmail.com>.
This commit is contained in:
Basil L. Contovounesios 2020-11-16 14:40:57 +00:00
parent 62fa6d19b3
commit 805d82197f
2 changed files with 20 additions and 16 deletions

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@ -138,18 +138,15 @@ immediately."
(defun jsonrpc-events-buffer (connection)
"Get or create JSONRPC events buffer for CONNECTION."
(let* ((probe (jsonrpc--events-buffer connection))
(buffer (or (and (buffer-live-p probe)
probe)
(let ((buffer (get-buffer-create
(format "*%s events*"
(jsonrpc-name connection)))))
(with-current-buffer buffer
(buffer-disable-undo)
(read-only-mode t)
(setf (jsonrpc--events-buffer connection) buffer))
buffer))))
buffer))
(let ((probe (jsonrpc--events-buffer connection)))
(if (buffer-live-p probe)
probe
(with-current-buffer
(get-buffer-create (format "*%s events*" (jsonrpc-name connection)))
(buffer-disable-undo)
(setq buffer-read-only t)
(setf (jsonrpc--events-buffer connection)
(current-buffer))))))
(defun jsonrpc-forget-pending-continuations (connection)
"Stop waiting for responses from the current JSONRPC CONNECTION."
@ -406,7 +403,7 @@ connection object, called when the process dies .")
(ignore-errors (kill-buffer hidden-name))
(rename-buffer hidden-name)
(process-put proc 'jsonrpc-stderr (current-buffer))
(read-only-mode t))))
(setq buffer-read-only t))))
(setf (jsonrpc--process conn) proc)
(set-process-buffer proc (get-buffer-create (format " *%s output*" name)))
(set-process-filter proc #'jsonrpc--process-filter)
@ -414,7 +411,9 @@ connection object, called when the process dies .")
(with-current-buffer (process-buffer proc)
(buffer-disable-undo)
(set-marker (process-mark proc) (point-min))
(let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (erase-buffer) (read-only-mode t)))
(let ((inhibit-read-only t))
(erase-buffer))
(setq buffer-read-only t))
(process-put proc 'jsonrpc-connection conn)))
(cl-defmethod jsonrpc-connection-send ((connection jsonrpc-process-connection)

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@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ the selected window is considered for restoring."
:group 'view)
(defcustom view-inhibit-help-message nil
"Non-nil inhibits the help message shown upon entering View mode."
"Non-nil inhibits the help message shown upon entering View mode.
This setting takes effect only when View mode is entered via an
interactive command; otherwise the help message is not shown."
:type 'boolean
:group 'view
:version "22.1")
@ -559,7 +561,10 @@ This function runs the normal hook `view-mode-hook'."
(unless view-mode
(view-mode 1)
(unless view-inhibit-help-message
(when (and (not view-inhibit-help-message)
;; Avoid spamming the echo area if `view-mode' is entered
;; non-interactively, e.g., in a temporary buffer (bug#44629).
this-command)
(message "%s"
(substitute-command-keys "\
View mode: type \\[help-command] for help, \\[describe-mode] for commands, \\[View-quit] to quit.")))))