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From: Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu>
Subject: Re: `last-message' variable ?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:45:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fyjauzmi.fsf@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87slnb54eq.fsf@tallis.ilo.ucl.ac.uk

Bastien <bastien@xxx.fr> writes:

> Just guessing, i thought Emacs would have a `last-message' variable,
> in case we want to fetch the last message quickly.  Apparently, this
> is not the case.
>
> How do i get the last message string ?
>
> What about implementing this ?

I have worked around it like this:

(defun last-message ()
  "Display last message from *Messages* buffer."
  (interactive)
  (with-current-buffer "*Messages*"
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (previous-line)
      (message "%s" (buffer-substring (point) (1- (point-max)))))))

Magnus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-16  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-15 22:06 `last-message' variable ? Bastien
2006-05-16  8:45 ` Magnus Henoch [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1884.1147769158.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-16 10:31   ` Bastien
2006-05-16 11:58     ` Tim X
2006-05-16 12:44       ` Bastien
2006-05-16 14:57         ` Kim F. Storm
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1900.1147791985.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-16 15:23           ` Bastien
2006-05-16 15:51             ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.1905.1147794706.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-16 16:13 ` Bastien

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