From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding messages to the *Message* buffer?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:58:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfjceeq0.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SJ0PR03MB54550C0C31B585DE24E6CEFBA2319@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com
David Masterson wrote:
>>> Is there a simple command I could add to my .emacs that
>>> would allow me to print a message to the *Message* buffer?
>>> I want to use it to help me debug my .emacs -- basically,
>>> tell me what step in startup Emacs is at by sprinkling
>>> this command in my .emacs.
>>
>> (message "Val: %s" varstring)
>> (message "Number: %d" n)
>> (message "%S" symbol)
>
> Thank you
Actually you can use %s for "any object, with `princ'" as the
docstring for `format' says, all of that can also be used with
`message' ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-24 3:39 Adding messages to the *Message* buffer? David Masterson
2022-10-24 4:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-25 3:38 ` David Masterson
2022-10-25 3:58 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-10-24 4:59 ` tomas
2022-10-24 21:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-25 9:37 ` tomas
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