From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how-many/count-matches for non-interactive use Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:08:17 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87pt3m5vqk.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> <87zn2mh5jk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87is99nznd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200410172053.i9HKrdL01136@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200410190158.i9J1wrH25523@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098223755 7410 80.91.229.6 (19 Oct 2004 22:09:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Luc Teirlinck , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 00:08:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CK2A3-0002iJ-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:08:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CK2HP-00028g-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CK2H3-0001zZ-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CK2H0-0001xd-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CK2Gx-0001xA-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.237] (helo=pfepc.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CK29Y-00052g-FW; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:08:24 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B7DE26288F; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:08:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:46:00 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28633 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28633 Richard Stallman writes: > So all > calls to interactive-p to decide whether to call `message' should be > judged based on whether we want to put the message into *Messages*. Right! So we should fix the doc string for message to state that messages are not shown when executing a macro. > Anything but a progress message should go into *Messages*. In principle yes, in practice I'm not sure.. If I use such a command in a macro and I do M-1000 C-x e, I get 1000 similar messages in *Messages* -- or actually just the last message-log-max (50) copies. ... for what purpose ? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk