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* Display message in echo area
@ 2016-09-02  6:58 Matthias Pfeifer
  2016-09-02 16:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Matthias Pfeifer @ 2016-09-02  6:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

From Emacs Lisp Manual (37.4)

  The "echo area" is used for displaying error messages (*note Errors::),
  for messages made with the `message' primitive, and for echoing
  keystrokes.

The message primitive however also writes its argument to the
message-buffer. Is it possible to inhibit this? Or asked more generally:
How can i write message to echo area without having it logged in message
buffer as well?

Matthias


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* Re: Display message in echo area
  2016-09-02  6:58 Display message in echo area Matthias Pfeifer
@ 2016-09-02 16:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
  2016-09-03  6:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2016-09-02 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthias Pfeifer; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

Matthias Pfeifer <mpfeifer77@gmail.com> writes:

> The message primitive however also writes its argument to the
> message-buffer. Is it possible to inhibit this? Or asked more
> generally: How can i write message to echo area without having it
> logged in message buffer as well?

Bind `message-log-max' to nil - see its docstring.  Admittedly this
feature is not easy to discover when you don't know where to search.


Regards,

Michael.



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* Re: Display message in echo area
  2016-09-02 16:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
@ 2016-09-03  6:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2016-09-03  6:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:49:42 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> Bind `message-log-max' to nil - see its docstring.  Admittedly this
> feature is not easy to discover when you don't know where to search.

The doc string of 'message' mentions 'message-log-max'.



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