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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Disabling message output
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Date: 31 Jul 89 18:32:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: mleone@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Leone)

In article <5679@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, mleone@f.gp (Mark Leone) writes:
| 
| Is there any way to disable output to the message window?  I'm calling
| several functions (ie, beginning-of-buffer) that update the message
| window, and the result are a bit confusing.  I tried setting
| cursor-in-echo-area to nil, but this doesn't seem to have any effect
| in our version (18.50.14).  Any ideas?

(describe-key 'beginning-of-buffer) ==>
" beginning-of-buffer:
" Move point to the beginning of the buffer; leave mark at previous position.
" With arg N, put point N/10 of the way from the true beginning.
" Don't use this in Lisp programs!
" (goto-char (point-min)) is faster and does not set the mark.

** notice the last two lines **
Most "noisy" functions are meant to be used by users.  Most of them
have equivalent "non-noisy" functions (in the true Unix style :-).  (I
think that "most" in that last sentence can be replaced with "all"...
but I can't be sure.)

Just another Elisp hacker,
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