From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding messages to the *Message* buffer? Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:58:47 +0200 Message-ID: <87sfjceeq0.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27973"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HMH+1G8t/BJEfIpB8wj1u/Qdzqs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 25 11:26:11 2022 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 1onGCJ-0006xI-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:26:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onGAk-0004tA-Va; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onB5e-00041X-Jc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onB5c-0003oA-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:58:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1onB5b-00047c-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:58:55 +0200 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:24:33 -0400 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: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140341 Archived-At: David Masterson wrote: >>> Is there a simple command I could add to my .emacs that >>> would allow me to print a message to the *Message* buffer? >>> I want to use it to help me debug my .emacs -- basically, >>> tell me what step in startup Emacs is at by sprinkling >>> this command in my .emacs. >> >> (message "Val: %s" varstring) >> (message "Number: %d" n) >> (message "%S" symbol) > > Thank you Actually you can use %s for "any object, with `princ'" as the docstring for `format' says, all of that can also be used with `message' ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal