restrictive/discrete messages log (was: Re: Suppress (pop kill-ring) from *Messages*)

[Emanuel Berg]

Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:

> How can I suppress the recording of the item
> in messages?

How can one do this in general?

For the debugger, there is, for example

    ;; ignore a couple of common "errors"
    (setq debug-ignored-errors
          '(quit
            beginning-of-line    end-of-line
            beginning-of-buffer  end-of-buffer
            end-of-file
            buffer-read-only
            file-supersession) )

but for messages? The only thing I can think of is
the command that brings up the messages buffer.
Then you can do some filtering, like this:

    (defun switch-to-filtered-messages-buffer ()
      (interactive)
      (switch-to-buffer (messages-buffer))
      (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
        (goto-char 0)
        (while (re-search-forward "Mark set\n" nil t) ; no BOUND; NOERROR
          (replace-match "") ))
      (goto-char (point-max)) )

However, it doesn't work if the messages buffer is
visible already and the user doesn't have to invoke
a command to bring it up.

You see? Yet another advantage for the two-pane, tty
solution where buffers constantly have to be "brought
up"! :)

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