From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dolist? Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:42:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <42C67DD0.4060006@student.lu.se> <42C6DDF3.4070605@student.lu.se> <42C6F47D.9040703@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120424647 16825 80.91.229.2 (3 Jul 2005 21:04:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 21:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 03 23:03:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpBcN-0003q3-Sl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:03:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpBdY-0000dg-NO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpBXp-0005R3-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpBXo-0005Qk-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpBUs-0003kW-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpBQJ-0000QO-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DpBIf-00024p-37; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:42:49 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Sat, 2 Jul 2005 23:12:04 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40264 (mapc #'(lambda (x) (message "...%s" x)) '(1 2 3 4)) In *Messages* => ...4 Seems like a "feature" of the messages, when using "...". This feature is very useful--it prevents a series of progress messages from cluttering up *Messages*. It ought to be better documented, though. I explained this in the Lisp Manual. Drew Adams wrote: Yes, but it should not be hard-wired into the standard message function. There's no need for that. *Message* is meant to provide convenient info for the user. Giving programs "full control over *Message*" is not the goal. (But they can get it by editing the buffer directly.) That is, if you ever want more than just the last "..." message to show up in *Messages*, you're out of luck. The standard `message' function should be more general (standard). That would be tantamount to disabling the feature most of the time. It would make things worse, not better. We will not make that change.