From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: canonical verbose? Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:46:39 +0200 Message-ID: <523D4EDF.7060605@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379749495 25660 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2013 07:44:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:44:55 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 21 09:44:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VNHs8-0005hj-Vp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:44:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNHs8-00079l-LE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 03:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNHrs-00075O-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 03:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNHrl-0006dq-C3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 03:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:53107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VNHrl-0006cv-3b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 03:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4dba07dd.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.7.221]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lh0F9-1Vie3V2TLz-00oVNA; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:44:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:x/yYSM+hZCYMcT3uiLG5Tr4j9Ve/wNDWA0KrRpkaGrg kFkpJ9LhMZubDyAadM2dtoF1Q8gIfQAQvdGGSU8PtzgZVPFvKQ cvXz7MLopcmlI6nkIzV1X0o+ms9XC6oQ/GoEYxELG6NSMCZsoe AtuUQCYumWb+m6Bsf5oSX9DZbfzFpPhyqO7r7K3gyoe74SKq7C T33OeZw/fR3AtdAsVF4p2uS03R2wop1/V6jqVb+OfOV13usfsO I/d1PllljT7dkrKeLxsIllTvXwu7U36MEfJ0ki7MbnpDhjEEqt qR0NdrqJKEa7YqFaokuglTV9njGRXB6FD0V1Tl1gurzZCSddOq Q/qRKnkpquIRCcmfUUUY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.186 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93487 Archived-At: 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