Re: Suppressing load messages

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Brendan Halpin wrote:
> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
> 
>> Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> writes:
>>
>>> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
>>>
>>>> If you want behavior like Perl or Python (output to STDOUT), then you
>>>> should figure out a way to divert STDERR from inside Emacs.  I tried 
>>> That's not necessary, since the print family of commands will write to
>>> STDOUT, and it is useful to be able to use message to write to STDERR. 
>> Huh?  Then what do you want?  Do you want to see only STDOUT on the
>> screen?  Do you want to capture it in a file?
> 
> I think we're talking at cross purposes. What I'm moaning about is that
> there is that even with "--script" there is a lot of unnecessary loading
> going on, with the most visible effect of lots of chatter on STDERR.
> Simply, that makes Emacs less useful for writing little self-executable
> shell utilities. 
> 
> What would be nice would be to be able to write hash-bang utilities in
> Emacs that behave like any other, with output going to STDOUT and
> errors/warnings going to STDERR. We're not quite there yet but it
> shouldn't be impossible. Maybe I should talk to the emacs-devel list.

Please do. I have already taken up this issue, but no one has answered yet.