From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Multiple delayed messages in echo area Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:31:36 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E1DB1F8.1050306@ihs.com> References: <3071ecd.0301090258.49f589f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042137169 12187 80.91.224.249 (9 Jan 2003 18:32:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18WhTz-0003AJ-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:32:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WgbF-0007Pc-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 12:36:13 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042133489 17587422 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:76839 gnu.emacs.help:108777 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5305 Bastien Guerry wrote: > I try to get multiple messages displayed in the echo-area, with a small > delay between each message. The messages should be displayed each after > another when Emacs is idle (and not idle, if possible...) > > How can I do this with GNU Emacs 21.2 ? > > I've searched around the `timer' (run-with-idle-timer?) functions and > `sit-for' functions, but I can't get what I exactly want. Here's how VM does it: (defconst vm-startup-message-lines '("Please use \\[vm-submit-bug-report] to report bugs." "For discussion about the VM mail reader, see the gnu.emacs.vm.info newsgroup" "You may give out copies of VM. Type \\[vm-show-copying-restrictions] to see the conditions" "VM comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type \\[vm-show-no-warranty] for full details")) (defun vm-display-startup-message () (if (sit-for 5) (let ((lines vm-startup-message-lines)) (message "VM %s, Copyright %s 2001 Kyle E. Jones; type ? for help" vm-version (if vm-xemacs-p "\251" "(C)")) (setq vm-startup-message-displayed t) (while (and (sit-for 4) lines) (message (substitute-command-keys (car lines))) (setq lines (cdr lines))))) (message "")) -- Kevin Rodgers