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From: trost@crl.labs.tek.com (Bill Trost)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Disabling message output
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Date: 1 Aug 89 21:08:01 GMT
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>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.)

Replace-regexp and replace-string are two functions where this is
grossly lacking.  In the finger stuff, there's a (message "") at the
end of the process sentinel to clean up the mess.

Of course, coding these inline using search-forward and replace-match
isn't too bad, but it's still an unfortunate gap.

Bill Trost, Computer Research Labs, Tektronix
trost@crl.labs.tek.com / tektronix!crl.labs!trost
(trost@reed.bitnet, but probably tektronix!reed!trost)