bug#22881: 25.0.50; Add more granularity to `save-silently'

bug#22881: 25.0.50; Add more granularity to `save-silently'

[Oleh Krehel]

I'd like to configure `save-silently' to customize the message of
`save-buffer'.

Here's the part I don't want to have:

    Saving file /usr/local/foo...

Here's the part I want to keep:

    Wrote /usr/local/foo

Both messages are emitted in `basic-save-buffer-2', which checks
`save-silently' twice whether to emit each message. But so far, it's an
all-or-nothing deal.

I would suggest modifying `save-silently' to be a verbosity level:

- 0 or nil means nothing gets printed.
- 1 means "Wrote ..." is printed.
- 2 means both messages are printed.

The main reason why I want to skip the "Saving file..." is that both
messages are printed in quick succession, and what's worse, sometimes
the first message takes more than one line because of the long file
name. And then I get a 0.1s window re-size by one line flicker.

bug#22881: 25.0.50; Add more granularity to `save-silently'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Oleh Krehel <oleh@oremacs.com> writes:

> I'd like to configure `save-silently' to customize the message of
> `save-buffer'.
>
> Here's the part I don't want to have:
>
>     Saving file /usr/local/foo...
>
> Here's the part I want to keep:
>
>     Wrote /usr/local/foo

(I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that haven't received any
response.)

Which reminds me -- that's a pretty odd set of messages.  Most places in
Emacs, we use

Doing whatever...
Doing whatever...done

Shouldn't we do that here, too?

Saving file /usr/local/foo...
Saving file /usr/local/foo...done

?

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bug#22881: 25.0.50; Add more granularity to `save-silently'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:25:19 +0200
> Cc: 22881@debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
> 
> > Here's the part I don't want to have:
> >
> >     Saving file /usr/local/foo...
> >
> > Here's the part I want to keep:
> >
> >     Wrote /usr/local/foo
> 
> (I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that haven't received any
> response.)
> 
> Which reminds me -- that's a pretty odd set of messages.  Most places in
> Emacs, we use
> 
> Doing whatever...
> Doing whatever...done
> 
> Shouldn't we do that here, too?

These two lines come from very different places in the code.

bug#22881: 25.0.50; Add more granularity to `save-silently'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Oleh Krehel <oleh@oremacs.com> writes:

> I'd like to configure `save-silently' to customize the message of
> `save-buffer'.
>
> Here's the part I don't want to have:
>
>     Saving file /usr/local/foo...
>
> Here's the part I want to keep:
>
>     Wrote /usr/local/foo

In more recent Emacs versions, this can be controlled by
`set-message-function' -- you can match on the message you want to
suppress, which is a more general functionality than the `save-silently'
functionality.  So I'm closing this bug report.

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