Re: How to suppress messages?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 15:25:48 -0800
> 
> I couldn't find any mention in the Elisp manual of a way to do this. If I
> have a function that calls a function (a built-in, as it turns out) that
> calls (message...), how can my function stop the message from being
> displayed by the called function?

I don't think there is a way to disable messages in the echo area,
except perhaps some clever trick.

The usual way to avoid messages is not to call functions that are
meant for interactive invocation, but instead use their
non-interactive subroutines.