From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Message queue for Emacs?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:27:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f63fa9b3-a5e6-4e54-970c-e410177ebd30@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vapv9fyf.fsf@jane>
> a lot of Emacs commands send a (message "...") for a user in the echo
> area. Now imagine a command that sends more than of them (not unlikely
> e.g. if there are a few hooks, each printing a message). Of course,
> only the last one is then visible. Is there any way for the next
> message to be printed with some delay, so that the previous one is still
> visible, say, for a second or two?
>
> I know about C-h e (view-echo-area-messages), but this is not what I'm
> after.
See `sit-for' and `sleep-for'.
But once the next message is displayed the previous one is lost
(from the echo area). The rest of what you wrote makes it sound
like you want a list of messages that you can traverse, to get
previous messages (?) (other than from `*Messages*', presumably).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-23 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-23 17:44 Message queue for Emacs? Marcin Borkowski
2017-04-23 18:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-04-23 19:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-04-23 20:47 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-23 21:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-04-23 19:29 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2017-04-24 0:37 ` Emanuel Berg
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