Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system

[David Reitter]

On 28 Nov 2007, at 21:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> FWIW, I don't think UTF-8 is a good idea here, since it cannot encode
> all the characters Emacs supports.  Maybe emacs-mule?

You'll know best what should be used. The coding system should support  
all characters in file names (that are supported).

> > !       ;; (message "Saving places to %s..." file)
>
> I think there should be a user option to disable this, instead of
> disabling it unconditionally.  I, for example, quite like this
> message.


If you like this message, presumably you'll like "such" messages in  
general.

I wonder if this hasn't come up before: could we not have a global  
verbosity level? If it is well-defined, all parts including modes  
could respect it.
One could have an optional argument to `message', indicating the level  
of the particular message.

In a case like the above (and, for the sake of the argument, we assume  
places could be saved interactively), I would go for a medium to low  
level, indicating progress at a usually quick process, which is, by  
default, only displayed when the function was called interactively.