From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New symptom and code Date: 07 Jul 2004 03:24:12 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <0ivGc.18253$T72.289@fe2.texas.rr.com> <40EAEC5D.8040603@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089163706 29079 80.91.224.253 (7 Jul 2004 01:28:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 07 03:28:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bi1EK-0007La-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:28:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bi1GM-0000c9-JW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:30:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de YOcfFrr9s4E79o6QSh3brAL02Mk1LyVQZ4/Q+lllxpCqB+jJXq X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124161 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19492 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19492 "David Vanderschel" writes: > "Kevin Rodgers" wrote in message > news:40EAEC5D.8040603@yahoo.com... > > David Vanderschel wrote: > > > I should have mentioned that I am using the minibuffer primarily so > > > that I can get a temporary multi-line display. Otherwise, I could > > > have used message. I am not letting the user edit in the minibuffer. > > > I am just showing him some data. The single character he types is > > > treated by my program as a command, which then modifies the display. > > > I don't understand. What's wrong with > > > (message "First line\nSecond line\nThird line") > > Well, when I try that, what I see in the echo area is > > "First line^JSecond line^JThird line" > > which is not acceptable. You are confusing the output of the message command with its return value. Obviously, if you use M-x eval-expression RET, then the last thing that gets displayed is the evaled expression. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum