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 04:20:30 +0100 Message-ID: <87y25u83gh.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87zgqaiwxr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <8735o2b5e5.fsf@zoho.eu> <993162c2a1c221047f6b@heytings.org> <87pmr69pn3.fsf@zoho.eu> <87sfw2i0qv.fsf@web.de> 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="36389"; 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:QauFwkvETx18eu5eClZfohE9BBY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 12 04:21:12 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 1mlN7o-0009I8-5H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 04:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42404 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN7m-0005GF-UE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37372) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN7R-0005FP-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN7N-0005O6-3v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlN7K-0008lr-EI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Nov 2021 04:20:42 +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:134516 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Invoking commands doesn't print a return value. And invoking > commands is what you do all the time. Still ... IMO a dedicated function is better than setting variable back and forth if you plan to use this a lot. Here is what you can do to have a log if you will ... But there is a bug somewhere. Rarely but it happens there is some complain about recentering. Don't know what that is or if that is related to some other code ... ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;;; ;;; this file: ;;; http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/todo-did.el ;;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/todo-did.el (defun todo-get-buffer () (let*((todo-env-var "TODO_FILE") (todo-file (getenv todo-env-var)) (todo-buffer (if todo-file (find-file-noselect todo-file t) (error "Set the variable %s first" todo-env-var) ))) todo-buffer) ) (defun todo-sort-and-save () (sort-lines nil (point-min) (point-max)) ; not REVERSE (whitespace-cleanup) (save-buffer) ) (defun todo-insert-entry (entry buffer) (with-current-buffer buffer (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n" entry) (todo-sort-and-save) )) (defun todo (what) (interactive "sdo what: ") (todo-insert-entry what (todo-get-buffer)) ) (defun todo-show-file () (interactive) (let ((todo-buffer (todo-get-buffer))) (with-current-buffer todo-buffer (when (buffer-modified-p todo-buffer) (todo-sort-and-save) ) (switch-to-buffer todo-buffer) ))) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal