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From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding messages to the *Message* buffer?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:38:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR03MB54550C0C31B585DE24E6CEFBA2319@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-73a74e16-0bd6-47b2-843f-10b46be63d33-1666587535680@3c-app-mailcom-bs13> (Christopher Dimech's message of "Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:58:55 +0200")

Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:

>> From: "David Masterson" <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
>>
>> 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

-- 
David Masterson



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-25  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-24  3:39 Adding messages to the *Message* buffer? David Masterson
2022-10-24  4:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-25  3:38   ` David Masterson [this message]
2022-10-25  3:58     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-24  4:59 ` tomas
2022-10-24 21:01   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25  9:37     ` tomas

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