Lennart, You're almost my private Emacs tutor :) Didn't know about advicing! Looks like it could solve it! I will look into it and get back with the results. But that'll have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks! On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Johan Andersson > wrote: > > Hey, > > I have a batch program where I run some Elisp functions and then > print some > > results. The problem is that some of the functions I'm calling produces > > output. And I don't want that. So I'm basically looking for a way to only > > output my printing. > > The first I thought about was redirecting stdout to something else. Like > > this: > > > > #!/usr/bin/emacs --script > > (let* ((buffer (get-buffer-create "output")) > > (standard-output buffer)) > > (print "some printing")) > > > > That works fine, except that it does not bite on message. Like this: > > > > #!/usr/bin/emacs --script > > (let* ((buffer (get-buffer-create "output")) > > (standard-output buffer)) > > (message "some message")) > > > > Any ideas how I can solve this? > > defadvice the `message' function? >