From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: run-with-timer does not display message Date: 15 Jul 2014 14:34:54 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405434928 13613 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2014 14:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:35:28 +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 Jul 15 16:35:21 2014 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 1X73pA-0002iG-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X73pA-00057j-4Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:35:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net OG9CeSiSs8djlQ/hrve5Pga/87TppNqBa0SsKqLzQSAk4Mh31s Cancel-Lock: sha1:fptlPIYYSAUvh+rE+pYzZurSHts= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206401 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:98673 Archived-At: Matthias Pfeifer wrote: > Hi there, > > this may be a dump question but i could not find a good reason why it > should not work as expected... > > I try to write a message to the messages buffer at some time in the future > via run-with-timer > > (run-with-timer 5 nil '(lambda () (message "hello"))) > > however messge buffer does not get the message. Hints welcome... messages in the message buffer dissappear as soon as the user interacts with Emacs. Perhaps the message does appear but you press a key so quickly that you don't see it. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)