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Re: write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness? |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:26:40 +0200 |
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:52:53 +0100
>
> I don't even understand why write-region has to echo everything to
> message buffer by default? I don't expect a function to explicitly tell
> me "Hey look, I did what I am suppose to do!". I mean (+ x y) does not
> tell me "Added x and y!" Why that befaviour by default?
Because writing to a file is something we want the user to be aware
of. And because Emacs behaved like that forever.
> If it is of interest I can send in a patch and add an optional flag like
> noverbose or similar; it is not über important, but I think it is ugly
> and unnecessary convoluted design as it is now.
We already have message-log-max which you can bind to nil to disable
logging a message.