From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness?
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:26:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838saefxfj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR06MB657746BDE87D7103149F676A96F20@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (message from Arthur Miller on Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:52:53 +0100)
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:52:53 +0100
>
> I don't even understand why write-region has to echo everything to
> message buffer by default? I don't expect a function to explicitly tell
> me "Hey look, I did what I am suppose to do!". I mean (+ x y) does not
> tell me "Added x and y!" Why that befaviour by default?
Because writing to a file is something we want the user to be aware
of. And because Emacs behaved like that forever.
> If it is of interest I can send in a patch and add an optional flag like
> noverbose or similar; it is not über important, but I think it is ugly
> and unnecessary convoluted design as it is now.
We already have message-log-max which you can bind to nil to disable
logging a message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 19:52 write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness? Arthur Miller
2020-12-03 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-03 20:35 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
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