Re: [O] M-: (org-display-outline-path) doesn't work correctly

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Nicolas Richard <address@hidden> writes:

> Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ok, I see ...  that seems to be a common pattern in Org-mode to make
>> functions behave differently if called (non-)interactively, that
>> sometimes causes confusion when using M-: instead of M-x.
>
> Note that using M-: will always hide any (message "foo") might have
> been called because M-: outputs the return value of the function.
> Usually you can recover those by inspecting the *Messages* buffer, but
> in this case org uses org-unlogged-message so you can't see it there
> either.
>
> Try this :
> M-: (prog1 (org-display-outline-path) (sit-for 2)) RET
> It shows the message (for up to 2 seconds), and then it is hidden by the
> return value (a string with properties) when the call to M-: terminates.

Thanks for the hint, this does the job:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (" " . (outshine-use-outorg
          (lambda ()
            (message
             "%s" (substring-no-properties
                   (org-display-outline-path))))
          'WHOLE-BUFFER-P))
#+end_src

only that promptly another message is shown (I can't use sit-for in
the program):

,-----------------------------
| Wrote /home/my/tmpdir/myfile
`-----------------------------

I have to get rid of that one ...

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten