From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : messages to *Messages* without appearing in mini-buffer? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 04:10:11 +0100 Message-ID: <8735o29ii4.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87zgqaiwxr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <8735o2b5e5.fsf@zoho.eu> <87tugi9pvo.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11309"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kN+hUoz8JW86p3sp73tBCMBZ+48= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 04:15:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN2b-0002mM-Tz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 04:15:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40580 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN2a-0003fb-VT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN1u-0003fB-87 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:15:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN1r-0004jT-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN1q-0001oF-K0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 04:15:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134515 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >>>>> (let ((inhibit-message t)) >>>>> (message "Msg only to be logged in *Messages*")) >>>> >>>> Doesn't work for me? >>>> >>>> I see it. >>>> >>>> Dont know if message displays it or if it is displayed because >>>> it is returned. >>> >>> What you see is the printed return value of >>> the sexp you asked to evaluate-AND-PRINT. >>> Try `eval-region' on the sexp instead. >>> Or put it in a defun and invoke the function in a way that >>> doesn't also print its return value. >> >> (progn >> (message "But then why don't you just do that?") >> 1) > > Because you don't need to do that, to prevent `message' from > displaying in the echo area. > > Printing a return value from evaluating a sexp has nothing > to do with the question. See the Subject line. Eheh ... is it off-topic? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal