From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to get the last message? Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 16:12:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87poet2hpm.fsf@jane> References: <87r2z92r2z.fsf@jane> <87lgphp6ug.fsf@rosalinde> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495980743 17082 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2017 14:12:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 14:12:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 28 16:12:18 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dEyvZ-0004Jq-O1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 16:12:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44101 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEyvf-000242-0A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 10:12:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59538) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEyvC-00023t-PD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 10:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEyv9-0006OO-KI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 10:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:59670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dEyv9-0006OK-DZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 10:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46777E68B5; Sun, 28 May 2017 16:11:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9vfGHAdV1ByD; Sun, 28 May 2017 16:11:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8B8D8E65D1; Sun, 28 May 2017 16:11:44 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87lgphp6ug.fsf@rosalinde> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113213 Archived-At: On 2017-05-28, at 13:18, Stephen Berman wrote: > On Sun, 28 May 2017 12:50:12 +0200 Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I know about (current-message). However, this won't work: >> >> (defun get-last-message () >> "Try to get the last message." >> (interactive) >> (with-temp-buffer >> (insert (or (current-message) "")) >> (clipboard-kill-ring-save (point-min) (point-max)))) >> >> M-x get-last-message puts the empty string into the clipboard and kill >> ring. >> >> Apparently `current-message' is cleared before this command has a chance >> to get it. This makes sense, but there is no `previous-message' command. >> >> Is there any way to get the last thing displayed in the echo area (from >> `message' or possibly from `error', too)? This would be quite useful: >> one could then paste it to a search engine to look up the internet for >> some hints about the error/message. > > What about this: > > (defun get-last-message () > "Try to get the last message." > (interactive) > (with-current-buffer "*Messages*" > (goto-char (point-max)) > (forward-line -1) > (clipboard-kill-ring-save (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))) Thanks, I thought about something like that, too. It has one problem, though: (defun long-message () (interactive) (message "Long\nmessage")) Thanks anyway, -- Marcin Borkowski