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From: jak@brunix (Jak Kirman)
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Subject: Error in init file [was Re: How to define VT2xx...]
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Date: 5 Mar 89 18:41:22 GMT
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Speaking of Error in init file, I quite agree with Ashwin, this
message should be a little more verbose.  I think it would
be sufficient if adding (setq debug-on-error t) to .emacs made it
enter debug-mode when it encountered an error, but for some reason it
does not (in Gnu Emacs 18.52).  And loading the file after starting up
emacs with the -q switch does not always have exactly the same behavior
as starting emacs normally.  Does anyone know why the setq... does not
work, or better yet, how to fix it?

While I am here, another point.  In many of the elisp functions that I 
write, I use functions which print messages in the minibuffer.  For 
example, replace-string prints a "Done", some search functions print "Mark
set", and so on.  Most of the time, I don't want these messages to appear.
Is there a simple way of 'redirecting' messages, so that anything written 
to the minibuffer will not appear?  At the moment I have a horrible kludge
involving fsetting 'message to a wrapper around the old 'message.  This 
is really not very elegant.  I would be grateful for any ideas.

				Jak Kirman
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