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 01:36:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87pmr69pn3.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87zgqaiwxr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <8735o2b5e5.fsf@zoho.eu> <993162c2a1c221047f6b@heytings.org> 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="14937"; 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:abvxX3TPFHon0SeOl/w3PxEcBdQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 01:41:18 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 1mlKd3-0003ff-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:41:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36072 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlKd1-0000DW-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:41:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41442) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlKbt-0000DE-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlKbr-0002nm-Fj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 19:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlKbp-0002Ej-Th for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:40:01 +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:134505 Archived-At: Gregory Heytings wrote: >> Don't know if message displays it or if it is displayed >> because it is returned. > > It is displayed with double quotes around the string, which > means that it is displayed because it is returned. Right, thanks! But ... if you are annoyed with message I think you will be annoyed with "message" as well! If you don't want to see anything, it should look like this: (new-log-entry "Stardate 41153.7. We have been examining ways to save energy and reduce stress among crew members in engineering by shutting up the computer's message system. So far, our efforts have involved fiddling with variables instead of having a robust function to do silent logging. But today, crewman Berg seems to be onto something ..." *Messages*) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal