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From: Dima Kogan <lists@dima.secretsauce.net>
To: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to debug a transient (message) bug
Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 01:04:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y8egpts.fsf@secretsauce.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b8d7d9d-ae58-626d-05be-51e1329b5b57@vodafonemail.de>

Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu@vodafonemail.de> writes:

> On 2023-05-26  08:43, Dima Kogan wrote:
>> I cannot figure out why, and I don't know how to debug it. I'd like to
>> trace some sort of message-transient-buffer-go-away event, but I don't
>> know what that is. This is 100% reproducible and 100% annoying, so I'd
>> like to fix it. Any debugging suggestions?
>
> Messages go away when other messages are written - probably tramp interferes
> with the results you expect by overwriting them with empty or temporary text.

Thank you so much for the suggestion! I didn't think of it, and it was
the right guess. There is indeed another (message) call that overwrites
the first. And now that I know this I can see another thing I didn't
think of: simply looking at the *Messages* buffer would show the second
message.

Thanks much



      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-27  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-26  6:43 How to debug a transient (message) bug Dima Kogan
2023-05-26 19:05 ` Jens Schmidt
2023-05-26 19:11   ` Jens Schmidt
2023-05-27  8:04   ` Dima Kogan [this message]

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