Re: What has happened to my echo area?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> I've been noticing lately that things that used to be echoed in the echo
>> area no longer do so.  A few exampes:
>>
>> Pressing C-u before entering a group
>> Pressing NUMBER before entering a group
>> Pressing C-u g in summary buffer to view a raw article
>
> These still echo for me, but only if there is a delay between
> keystrokes.  After the delay, all keystrokes so far are echoed,
> further keystrokes are echoed as soon as they are typed, and the
> entire key sequence stays in the echo area until the next keystroke.
> If there is no delay, nothing gets echoed.

What on earth might have derailed it for me?

For example:  In this composition buffer, pressing C-h <waiting a few
seconds> nothing shows in the echo area.  Finish by pressing `m' so
I've pressed C-h m  and the expected buffer pops up but nothing ever
showed up in echo area.

I can't think of recent local changes that might cause this but I really
have no idea of where to start looking.   I can say that in another
emacs instance running next to this one that happens to have a perl script
in it, pressing C-h there shows C-h within a second in echo area. 

So seems it may be related to gnus or to message-mode.

Both instances are started from the same init files.