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From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dolist?
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 08:35:59 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a05070216354d37f2e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICCECJCKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

2005/7/3, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>:
> There should either be two different functions, only one of which has this
> feature, or this should somehow be optional with `message'.

There could be a variable you bind to have it not do such suppression
(or to refine the algorithm it uses -- perhaps telling the message
code what prefix to consider a duplicate [instead of looking for
"..."]).

However, the standard `message' calls should probably be left as is. 
Most elisp programmers treat `message' as temporary output, and don't
consider that the results are logged, so they often write many
progress messages using `message'.  This looks great to the user, but
can make the message log completely useles by swamping it with
duplicate entries; the current suppression of duplicates tries to work
around this problem.

Documentation is of course a good thing...

-Miles
-- 
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-02 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-02 11:43 dolist? Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 18:33 ` dolist? Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 20:09   ` dolist? Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 20:41     ` dolist? - same result on 21.3 Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 21:46       ` Drew Adams
2005-07-02 21:01     ` dolist? Miles Bader
2005-07-02 21:01     ` dolist? David Ponce
2005-07-02 21:12     ` dolist? Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-02 21:27       ` dolist? Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 21:33         ` dolist? Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-02 21:40           ` dolist? Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 22:33           ` dolist? Adrian Aichner
2005-07-02 21:46         ` dolist? David Ponce
2005-07-02 22:07           ` dolist? Lennart Borgman
2005-07-02 22:44             ` dolist? Drew Adams
2005-07-02 22:12           ` dolist? Drew Adams
2005-07-02 23:35             ` Miles Bader [this message]
2005-07-02 23:50               ` dolist? Drew Adams
2005-07-02 21:50         ` dolist? Drew Adams
2005-07-02 21:28       ` dolist? Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-03 20:42       ` dolist? Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-03 23:09         ` dolist? Drew Adams

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