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Suppress message in minibuffer when a buffer is saved?

Whenever a buffer is saved, a message is displayed in minibuffer. Wrote foo.bar I use real-auto-save to save modified buffers every 5 seconds. Due to this minibuffer is getting spammed. Sometimes, ...
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Print message in echo area with no “quotes”?

Q: how do I print a message in the echo area without surrounding quotes? Here's a simple command: (defun test-fn () (interactive) (message "Test message")) When I call it as an interactive ...
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Inspect message output

When I save my file, I can see output of some commands in the echo area. The thing is, that it's very fast and the next message will overwrite the previous one. So I just see the message Wrote FILE. ...
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How to attach multiple files in `message-mode`?

To attach one file when in message-mode (e.g. when posting from Gnus), one does C-c C-a. What's the recommended way for attaching multiple files ? Repeating C-c C-a can become tiresome after a while,...
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How to display a message in echo-area only

Is it possible to display a message in the echo area without logging it in buffer *Messages*?
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How to add a locally override the message function?

I would like to add a suffix to a message reported by a function called in some source I don't maintain. Is there a way to locally override the message function so I can manipulate it before it's ...
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Prevent Emacs from messaging when it writes recentf

I've configured Emacs to save recentf every five minutes by using this code: (run-at-time nil (* 5 60) 'recentf-save-list) It works great, but after writing recentf Emacs feels it has to tell me ...
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Possible to supress the: “Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!!” message?

When running a process from a timer, this message is printed a lot. Is there a way to suppress the message entirely? For reference see: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/50681/2418
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resize-temp-buffer doesn't work in my code when 2 windows are diplayed into the frame

I'm searching for a way to display messages while replacements are proposed to the users of a script. I tried to write a macro but I'm in trouble with this code: (defmacro with-user-explanation (...