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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Davis Herring <herring@lanl.gov>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: Re: messages override minibuffer input
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:25:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070912092545.GA12104@saeurebad.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38233.128.165.123.18.1189460486.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>


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Hi,

On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:41:26PM -0700, Davis Herring wrote:
> (defvar optional-message nil
>   "The last message shown with the function `optional-message'.")
> (defun optional-message (fmt &rest args)
>   "Display a message if there's nothing better being displayed."
>   (or (active-minibuffer-window)
>       (not (eq (current-message) optional-message))
>       (message "%s" (setq optional-message (apply 'format fmt args)))))

ELISP> (progn (setq foo "foo") (message foo) (eq (current-message) foo))
nil

This function calls `message' only when the minibuffer is active.  I am sorry,
I can not follow that logic.

How likely is it anyway that two EQUAL strings are messaged in a row?

	Hannes

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-12  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-08  4:23 messages override minibuffer input Roland Winkler
2007-09-08 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 21:41 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-11 20:30   ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-12 22:32     ` Davis Herring
2007-09-13  3:23       ` Luc Teirlinck
2007-09-13  4:23         ` Davis Herring
2007-09-14  7:05       ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-12  9:25   ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2007-09-12 10:24     ` Johannes Weiner
2007-09-12 16:25       ` Davis Herring
2007-09-12 16:28     ` Davis Herring
     [not found] ` <E1IUCJ9-0000VV-9H@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-09-16  3:23   ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-17  0:20     ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 14:49       ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-17 22:24         ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-22 15:18           ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-23  9:07             ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-23 15:08               ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-23 21:54                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-23 23:33                   ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-24 18:19                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-25  1:06                       ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-24  0:24                   ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24  1:28                     ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-24  2:02                       ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24  3:20                         ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-24 10:36                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-24 15:08                           ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 16:11                             ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-09-24 16:53                               ` Drew Adams
2007-09-24 10:43                   ` Johannes Weiner
2007-09-24 11:12                     ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 13:19                       ` Johannes Weiner
2007-09-24 14:48                         ` Roland Winkler
2007-09-25 10:44                           ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-24 15:13                         ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 10:43                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-17 22:31       ` Davis Herring
2007-09-18  0:53       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-23 21:55         ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-24  8:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 17:16           ` Davis Herring
2007-09-24 17:24             ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 10:44             ` Richard Stallman

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