From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: log full path of magically loaded files? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:35:13 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <06d6bc48-a54e-4e08-a2e5-9a2d6a840eef@googlegroups.com> <13842b40-b46a-4988-aa16-0d05e821b2a4@googlegroups.com> <5315d3ad-be2e-4ec9-9acb-87aa7d92bd71@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364274694 24500 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2013 05:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:11:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 26 06:12:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UKMAw-0004lR-Hf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:11:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKMAY-0005Bn-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:11:34 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="14138"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+OiBi6Dl0vo4M7jQVeRyXx" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8xCryT4HOReTX/T/Fk/M0emJP7Y= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197486 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:10:02 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89756 Archived-At: 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 ***