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> From: "Sean O'Rourke" <sorourke@cs.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:16:36 -0700
> 
> When `dabbrev-expand' is invoked with many buffers and it fails
> to find an expansion, there is an annoying forced pause while it
> scans every buffer and emits uninteresting progress messages.  If
> these messages are removed, a failed expansion is nearly
> instantaneous, so I don't see any benefit to having progress
> messages.  Patch attached.

Instead of deleting the functionality altogether, I'd prefer that the
messages could be enabled by customizing some option.  The option
could be off by default (which should be noted in etc/NEWS, btw).