From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: danmbox@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: log full path of magically loaded files? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5315d3ad-be2e-4ec9-9acb-87aa7d92bd71@googlegroups.com> References: <06d6bc48-a54e-4e08-a2e5-9a2d6a840eef@googlegroups.com> <13842b40-b46a-4988-aa16-0d05e821b2a4@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364274618 23971 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 05:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:10:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 06:10:45 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 1UKM9j-0002pL-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:10:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKM9L-0003Q6-RB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:10:19 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.185.79 with SMTP id cn15mr7399121qab.4.1364244648499; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.86.40 with SMTP id m8mr832762qez.30.1364244648468; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!ca1no6934978qab.0!news-out.google.com!k8ni10926qas.0!nntp.google.com!t2no16411693qal.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.136.154.225; posting-account=DlcrmAoAAACjiZe5rV7TSuYe6yXFNjPG Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.136.154.225 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:50:48 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197481 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:09:50 -0400 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:89753 Archived-At: > It's not all that strange. *Messages* records the stream of predominantl= y > 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 librar= y > 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 logge= d (while a command explicitly issued by the user somehow deserves to be log= ged) isn't very convincing. Thanks anyway! -- Dan