From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Redirecting messages (was: Proposed new core library: alert.el)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 01:31:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <563C7387.7080407@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-LP6FvcVV6hQQR1WTg1m9kx5rO6Z=KZGYQteM2EoiAKyw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/06/2015 01:23 AM, Artur Malabarba wrote:
> On 5 Nov 2015 7:48 pm, "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:
>>
>> Agreed. But if alert.el doesn't support it now, it should have a way to
>> replace `message' so rather than asking every package to change, the
>> user just customizes one thing globally.
>
> I don't think users will want to turn every single message into a
> desktop notification. The `message' function has always been a very
> non-intrusive approach, so it's used in very spammy ways sometimes.
>
> That said, a way of redirecting messages via some arbitrary function
> is something that would be nice to have, and it's been mentioned
> lately here. I think Stefan was pushing for this a bit, specially when
> Oleh implemented the new inhibit-messages variable.
>
> The right approach IMO is to
>
> 1. move the current message function to `message-echo-area'
> 2. define a variable called `message-function', whose default value is
> #'message-echo-area
> 3. redefine the `message' function to just call the value of
> `message-function' and then log the string to the *Messages* buffer
I wish we'd direct some love toward the streams system. There's no
reason that standard-output and a hypothetical message-output couldn't
be the same type of object and have the same semantics. A scheme like
this would also help modes like ielm provide a uniform way of capturing
command output.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-06 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-06 9:23 Redirecting messages (was: Proposed new core library: alert.el) Artur Malabarba
2015-11-06 9:31 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2015-11-06 21:54 ` File-handle streams (was: Redirecting messages) John Wiegley
2015-11-06 9:38 ` Redirecting messages Rasmus
2015-11-06 20:48 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-06 15:57 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-07 1:23 ` raman
2015-11-06 21:55 ` John Wiegley
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