On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Vivek Dasmohapatra <vivek@etla.org> wrote:

> Something like a timestamped version of *Messages* but just for *Alerts*
> would be great.

That could be done with warnings.el and `warning-prefix-function' and some
creative use of `display-buffer-alist', I suspect.

I've always thought that warnings.el is underused and a bit wasted.
`message' is, to a certain point', a low-level tool. If we used warnings in
the Emacs sources instead of message, we could add tweaks to give the user
more control over what and how these messages are shown. When I added
delayed warnings I did as a way to "show" warnings from C code before
there's even a Lisp interpreter running, but one consequence is that
warnings that go through `delayed-warning-list' can (or at least, could) be
easily filtered, grouped, modified, etc.

Just my 0.02€