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How to add a timestamp to each entry in Emacs' *Messages* buffer?
I have the following snippet in my init.el, which was adapted from an original I found in the following Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/16tzu9/...
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Prevent Emacs from messaging when it writes recentf
One solution for that narrow case is to dynamically set save-silently for that invocation specific invocation. Try:
(run-at-time nil (* 5 60)
(lambda ()
(let ((save-...
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How to add a timestamp to each entry in Emacs' *Messages* buffer?
The translation of @xinfatang's simple solution to the new advice-add syntax as a wrapper around the message function is:
(defun my-message-with-timestamp (old-func fmt-string &rest args)
"...
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How do I suppress messages in the echo area (e.g. `Fill column set to 80 (was 80)`)?
@NickD answered the question well. But you can also do this, just to inhibit showing messages for set-fill-column:
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(setq indent-tabs-mode ...
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Inspect message output
M-x view-echo-area-messages RET or C-h e will open the *Messages* buffer.
(This buffer can even contain some stuff that's not shown in the minibuffer, see inhibit-message.)
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Disabling the "Auto-saving...done" message
Is there a way to just disable this message, but not the auto-saving functionality?
Yes, Emacs 27 will introduce the user option auto-save-no-message:
auto-save-no-message is a variable defined in ‘...
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How to add a timestamp to each entry in Emacs' *Messages* buffer?
Refer to https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DebugMessages:
(defadvice message (before when-was-that activate)
"Add timestamps to `message' output."
(ad-set-arg 0 (...
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Is there a way to read the current displayed message?
Take a look at current-message function:
(current-message)
Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.
Return the string currently displayed in the echo area, or nil if none.
Code
(progn
(...
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How to suppress `When done with a buffer, type C-x #` warning message?
The only way to avoid that message with Emacs earlier than 28.1 is to invoke emacsclient with the -n (--nowait) option.
Starting with Emacs 28.1 (basically, current upstream at the time of writing), ...
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Is it possible suppress save message for undo-tree?
undo-tree-save-history calls write-region. In this example, we suppress the Wrote ... message entirely using an :around advice. Here are the steps used to verify the answer works as advertised:
STEP ...
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How can I suppress the message `When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0`?
This is possible starting from Emacs 28, which provides the user option server-client-instructions for this purpose.
(setq server-client-instructions nil)
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How to suppress `Wrote /home/user/.emacs.d/recentf` message in minibuffer
This should do it.
(defun no-msg (function)
"Prevent FUNCTION from showing `Wrote <FILE>' messages.
\(The messages are still logged to `*Messages*'.)"
(let ((inhibit-message t))
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How to add a locally override the message function?
This macro adds support for adding a suffix to messages.
Using advice allows this to be nested, so multiple functions can add their own suffixes which accumulate onto the end.
(defmacro with-temp-...
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Percentage sign in `print` and `message`
By running (message (format ...)), you're using the string as a format twice.
print takes an object as its parameter, while message takes a format string. Use "%s" as the format and you can ...
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how to read messages which appear after `C-x C-c`?
When killing Emacs, there are several hooks that may end up being called -- including, but not limited to, kill-emacs-hook, kill-buffer-hook (when a buffer is killed), write-file-functions hook (if a ...
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How to show a message in the echo area not immediately but after a certain delay and to disappear it after a certain delay
You could try something like:
(run-with-timer 2 nil
(lambda ()
(message "Some message")
(run-with-timer 3 nil
(lambda ()
(message nil)...
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Suppress message in minibuffer when a buffer is saved?
There is a var named save-silently in files.el. if you set the var to t I think the message will not show again.
(defvar save-silently nil
"If non-nil, avoid messages when saving files.
Error-...
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Suppress message in minibuffer when a buffer is saved?
You can use following
(defmacro with-suppressed-message (&rest body)
"Suppress new messages temporarily in the echo area and the `*Messages*' buffer while BODY is evaluated."
(declare (indent ...
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When working on elisp where to show intermediate values?
If you are using messages to yourself while developing then:
That's fine - nothing wrong with using message.
You can also define a wrapper for such uses of message, which respects a global variable ...
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Is it possible to suppress `LSP :: Connected to [pyls:N].` message on minibuffer?
(defun disable-lsp-conn-msg-advice (func &rest r)
(unless (string-prefix-p "Connected to" (car r))
(apply func r)))
(advice-add 'lsp--info :around #'disable-lsp-conn-msg-advice)
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How do I suppress messages in the echo area (e.g. `Fill column set to 80 (was 80)`)?
Regarding the specific example case...
set-fill-column is a command which is only intended to be used interactively.
To set the fill column programmatically, just do this:
(setq fill-column 80)
Which ...
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Hook that fires when `*Messages*` is updated
I think you'd need to use polling, sadly.
Detecting via polling that a change happened isn't very hard. Detecting which change happened would in general require keeping a copy of the buffer's ...
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Taking action depending on the presence of particular message in the echo area
I don't know what you want to accomplish exactly, but as other people pointed out, reading the echo area is not the best strategy. Instead, you probably want to set up a sentinel.
Many commands in ...
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How to add a timestamp to each entry in Emacs' *Messages* buffer?
My solution expands on Stuart Hickinbottom 's and xinfa tang 's answers by NOT printing the timestamp of repeated messages:
(defvar my-package--last-message nil
"Last message with timestamp ...
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Persistent message in the echo area?
I tried the following. It seems to work, but I'm not sure about edge cases, and I'm still testing. The following code displays "foo" in the echo area, and then "bar", and then "hippo", and then "oink"....
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Prevent showing buffer reversion message while working in the minibuffer
I think you could add something like this to your initialization:
(advice-add
'auto-revert-handler
:around (lambda (orig-fun &rest args)
(let ((auto-revert-verbose (not (minibufferp (...
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Prevent showing buffer reversion message while working in the minibuffer
You most probably have set the global autorevert mode on using this form:
(global-auto-revert-mode)
You can stop it sending messages to minibuffer by setting
(setq auto-revert-verbose nil)
Set it ...
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Inhibiting `finished:` message from `async-shell-command`
There are two versions of function (inhibit-sentinel-messages FUN &rest ARGS) defined in Section Code of inhibit-sentinel-messages of this answer. The first version wraps all sentinels started in ...
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Is there a way to keep the *Messages* buffer scrolled to the bottom?
Just place the cursor/point at the end of the *Messages* buffer (e.g. using M->).
If you keep it there, the message buffer will stay 'scrolled down'.
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How to capture a function's `message` output?
Since it calls kill-new to insert the link into the kill-ring, you could just call current-kill to retrieve it.
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