There appears to be a simple typo in the documetation: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/message.html#message "The whole string between double quotation marks is a single argument and is printed in toto" ....in toto ???? I'm a noob to emacs!! Many thanx for all the work that the emacs team (past, present, future) does to keep this software moving forward. -blizzack