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bug#27170: 26.0.50; Suggestion: Optionally send package build output to
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#27170: 26.0.50; Suggestion: Optionally send package build output to log file not *Messages* |
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Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:52:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The "bind" part (also in the doc string of the variable) might mislead
> someone into thinking that just binding this variable around some form
> is enough to have all the relevant messages to go to that buffer.
I think most people know that that's what binding means...?
> But that is not necessarily true, because some messages are produced
> after the command exits; a prominent example is messages produced by
> the display engine.
>
> So basically, binding this variable will actually _split_ the messages
> between *Messages* and some other buffer.
Of course a binding has no effect on code that runs after the binding is
over -- we don't note this in the documentation for, say,
`print-length', so I'm not sure why we'd note this in relation to this
variable either.
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