Re: Messages in el functions & the Mini-Buffer

[Joost Kremers]

On Wed, Oct 28 2020, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> Very good. Have been trying to write (message "%end-of-fuckup")
> and a problem crops up when trying to display the '%' symbol.

That's because the string passed to `message` is a format string, as with the
function `format`. See the documentation strings of `message` and `format` for
details.

>> > When I introduce (message "Fuckup") in an Elisp function, does it always 
>> > use the
>> > mini-buffer?  Is there a command to output in a window buffer like when I 
>> > use
>> > M-x describe function?

You can use the macro `with-help-window` to get an effect similar to 
`describe-function`. 

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