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In article <mailman.2626.1379749488.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> writing quite often commands which should give some reports when being 
> successful, like that:
> 
> (defun ar-up-list ()
>    "Returns position reached when successful, nil otherwise"
>    (interactive)
>    (let ((orig (point))
> 	(pps (syntax-ppss))
>          erg)
>      (and (nth 8 pps) (goto-char (nth 8 pps)))
>      (ignore-errors (up-list))
>      (and (< orig (point))(setq erg (point)))
>      (when (interactive-p) (message "%s" erg))
>      erg))
> 
> However, binding the message at interactive-usage alone seems not optimal.
> 
> Does Emacs provide some variable setting verbosity?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Andreas

Another option is to have two functions: one that does all the work, and 
a command that calls the first function and then displays a message.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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