From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Collapsing the echo area Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20100414120014.GA24039@tomas> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271246102 1957 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 11:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Whitfield Diffie Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 13:55:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O21BF-0003hc-EL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:54:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O21BE-0008S5-QS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O21Ao-0008Rn-Rf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44389 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O21An-0008Rf-Gd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O21Am-0001II-70 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:48820 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O21Am-0001Gs-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 17EC7900B4; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:14 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72674 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:08:36PM -0700, Whitfield Diffie wrote: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0Can anyone tell me how to get the echo area to return clos= e > without returning to the keyboard. =C2=A0If I execute >=20 (messsage nil) clears the echo area, like so: > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0(progn (message "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\= nh\n") (sit-for 1) > (message "One-line message") (sit-for 5)) >=20 (messsage nil) clears the echo area (and restores its one-lineness), like= so: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0(progn (message "a\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh= \n") (sit-for 1) (message nil) (message "One-line message") (sit-for 5)) Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLxa5LBcgs9XrR2kYRAjDoAJ9j0XgcYfuRClcYyKjoPM1jWz+ptgCdGUpb Sb/ABDbL9L2MMYoJrK2j14Y=3D =3DFT6Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----