From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: log full path of magically loaded files?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:35:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-AD6252.23351325032013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5315d3ad-be2e-4ec9-9acb-87aa7d92bd71@googlegroups.com
In article <5315d3ad-be2e-4ec9-9acb-87aa7d92bd71@googlegroups.com>,
danmbox@gmail.com wrote:
> > It's not all that strange. *Messages* records the stream of predominantly
> > 1-line messages which appear in the echo area. It's not intended as a
> > general system log. Too much uninteresting stuff in the echo area could
> > be distracting and a nuisance. Usually the exact path of a loaded library
> > is uninteresting.
>
> I'm not going to argue with "it is the way it is"; but the argument that an
> automagically triggered action is "uninteresting" and thus not to be logged
> (while a command explicitly issued by the user somehow deserves to be logged)
> isn't very convincing. Thanks anyway!
One of the documented differences between load and require is that
require doesn't display a message saying what it's doing. If it doesn't
display anything, it won't go in *Messages*.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-26 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-25 16:49 log full path of magically loaded files? danmbox
2013-03-25 17:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 19:42 ` danmbox
2013-03-25 19:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 20:50 ` danmbox
2013-03-26 3:35 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-03-26 14:48 ` W. Greenhouse
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