From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : messages to *Messages* without appearing in mini-buffer? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:10:26 +0100 Message-ID: <8735o2b5e5.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87zgqaiwxr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34807"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:zANJ9477S9mUhw1zdYQ4zNohXdU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 01:11:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlKA2-0008pt-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:11:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46658 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlKA1-0001sn-14 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlK9N-0001rW-O7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:10:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlK9M-0007as-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:10:37 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlK9K-0007xT-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:10:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134499 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> easiest way to output text to the *Messages* buffer... >> without having it appear in the echo ... area? > > (let ((inhibit-message t)) > (message "Msg only to be logged in *Messages*")) Doesn't work for me? I see it. Dont know if message displays it or if it is displayed because it is returned. But then I don't see either of these. Both are logged. (let ((inhibit-message t)) (message "inhib") 1) (let ((inhibit-message nil)) (message "nil so") 2) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal