From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Message queue for Emacs? Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 11:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <87vapv9fyf.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492972087 21328 195.159.176.226 (23 Apr 2017 18:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:28:07 +0000 (UTC) To: Marcin Borkowski , Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 23 20:28:00 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d2MEq-0005N9-2d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:28:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40189 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2MEv-0005Ju-Vw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:28:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45188) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2MEJ-0005IN-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2MEG-0007Eo-QF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d2MEG-0007Dq-I0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 14:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id v3NIRMwA019430 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:27:22 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v3NIRMTA032179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:27:22 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0008.oracle.com (abhmp0008.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v3NIRLZe024456; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:27:21 GMT In-Reply-To: <87vapv9fyf.fsf@jane> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 12.0.6767.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112863 Archived-At: > 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? >=20 > 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).