Questions tagged [message]
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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 (...