are shown in the corner of the window
This was an attempt to avoid opening up a whole status line in the
bottom of the window much of the time. But it doesn't really work
since as soon as you have a syntax error (which are relatively common)
you get that whole line opened up. That it, this attempted GUI interaction
depended on the bogus premise that read errors are somehow happening
in a transient way between error-free states.
closes PR 13267