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Re: canonical verbose?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: canonical verbose? |
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Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:33:11 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.2626.1379749488.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> writing quite often commands which should give some reports when being
> successful, like that:
>
> (defun ar-up-list ()
> "Returns position reached when successful, nil otherwise"
> (interactive)
> (let ((orig (point))
> (pps (syntax-ppss))
> erg)
> (and (nth 8 pps) (goto-char (nth 8 pps)))
> (ignore-errors (up-list))
> (and (< orig (point))(setq erg (point)))
> (when (interactive-p) (message "%s" erg))
> erg))
>
> However, binding the message at interactive-usage alone seems not optimal.
>
> Does Emacs provide some variable setting verbosity?
>
> TIA,
>
> Andreas
Another option is to have two functions: one that does all the work, and
a command that calls the first function and then displays a message.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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