Re: full message not saved to *Messages*

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <mailman.3.1294593919.11727.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
>> Date: 8 Jan 2011 20:08:20 -0500
>> 
>> Message not saved to *Messages*:
>> 
>> *Messages* does show this:
>> 
>> | Saving file c:/dkc/archive-wbai-org-asof-25oct10.txt...
>> | Loading help-mode...done
>> | Please answer yes or no.   <<<============================= only THIS shows up here.
>> | Wrote c:/dkc/archive-wbai-org-asof-25oct10.txt
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> But, the message that ALSO needs to end up in *Messages* is this (from mini-buf):
>> 
>>   Selected encoding chinese-iso-8bit-dos disagrees with
>>   iso-latin-1-dos specified by file contents.  really save (else edit
>>   coding cookies and try again? (yes or no)
>
>This part is a prompt, albeit a long one, and prompts (like the one
>you get when you type "C-x C-f", which says "Find file: DEFAULT") are
>not logged in the *Messages* buffer.  This is normal.
>

Well, maybe normal, but not too useful when you want
to go back over what you did (or responded to, from emacs),
so as to not do it (whatever "it" was) again.

Could be a 2nd queue, of commands recently executed.

Could be VERY useful!

Thanks,

David