Re: inhibit-message variant that doesn't even log to *Messages*

[Robert Pluim]

Gergely Risko <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I use more and more packages that provide some functionality by doing
> something periodically.
>
> A recent example is sync-recentf: https://github.com/ffevotte/sync-recentf
>
> When sync-recentf decides to periodically save the recent file, a lot of
> messages get written with the `message' function.
>
> I worked around most if this with:
>
>     (defadvice recentf-cleanup (around nce/recentf-cleanup activate)
>       (let ((inhibit-message t))
>         ad-do-it))
>
> My problem is that, these messages still get logged to *Messages*, so if
> I set the frequency to every 15 seconds, and try to debug something
> unrelated in Elisp, then these messages get to be annoying a bit.
>
> Would there be any downside to providing an additional variable (under
> the name `inhibit-message-fundamentally' or such) that would inhibit
> message printing altogether (echo area AND *Messages*)?
>

Would a special value for inhibit-message not be easier?

> Would there be willingness to merge this if I were to work on this?

I wouldnʼt  mind, but Iʼm not the maintainer :-)

Robert