From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: full message not saved to *Messages* Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296286885 20554 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2011 07:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:41:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 29 08:41:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pj5Qv-0001Fe-9u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:41:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pj5Qu-0003k6-PP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:41:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1296286050 18857 166.84.1.1 (29 Jan 2011 07:27:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:27:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184671 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78826 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii 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