Re: `last-message' variable ?

[Magnus Henoch]

Bastien <bastien@xxx.fr> writes:

> Just guessing, i thought Emacs would have a `last-message' variable,
> in case we want to fetch the last message quickly.  Apparently, this
> is not the case.
>
> How do i get the last message string ?
>
> What about implementing this ?

I have worked around it like this:

(defun last-message ()
  "Display last message from *Messages* buffer."
  (interactive)
  (with-current-buffer "*Messages*"
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (previous-line)
      (message "%s" (buffer-substring (point) (1- (point-max)))))))

Magnus