From: danmbox@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: log full path of magically loaded files?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5315d3ad-be2e-4ec9-9acb-87aa7d92bd71@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kiqa5m$1tc7$1@colin.muc.de>
> It's not all that strange. *Messages* records the stream of predominantly
> 1-line messages which appear in the echo area. It's not intended as a
> general system log. Too much uninteresting stuff in the echo area could
> be distracting and a nuisance. Usually the exact path of a loaded library
> is uninteresting.
I'm not going to argue with "it is the way it is"; but the argument that an automagically triggered action is "uninteresting" and thus not to be logged (while a command explicitly issued by the user somehow deserves to be logged) isn't very convincing. Thanks anyway!
-- Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-25 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-25 16:49 log full path of magically loaded files? danmbox
2013-03-25 17:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 19:42 ` danmbox
2013-03-25 19:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 20:50 ` danmbox [this message]
2013-03-26 3:35 ` Barry Margolin
2013-03-26 14:48 ` W. Greenhouse
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