Re: [External] : messages to *Messages* without appearing in mini-buffer?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Still ... IMO a dedicated function is better than setting variable
> back and forth if you plan to use this a lot.

You typically bind the variable, and since it's special, it can silence
calls to `message' in code you call that calls `message'.

Michael.