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write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness?
From: |
Arthur Miller |
Subject: |
write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness? |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:52:53 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
I am building a file by appending lots of data to it. Write-region was
literally flooding the message buffer, slowing down Emacs and making
message buffer itself unuseful due to load of data.
When I looked into info about write-region, it says I can set 'visit'
option to something else then nil or t but not string to turn it off? :D :-)
"Normally, ‘write-region’ displays the message ‘Wrote FILENAME’ in
the echo area. This message is inhibited if VISIT is neither ‘t’
nor ‘nil’ nor a string, or if Emacs is operating in batch mode
(*note Batch Mode::). This feature is useful for programs that use
files for internal purposes, files that the user does not need to
know about."
I tried and it works; but is that really a proper design? :-)
What if someone would like to use visit flag for something else? Mybe it
is never used for something else; i don't know :-).
I don't even understand why write-region has to echo everything to
message buffer by default? I don't expect a function to explicitly tell
me "Hey look, I did what I am suppose to do!". I mean (+ x y) does not
tell me "Added x and y!" Why that befaviour by default?
If it is of interest I can send in a patch and add an optional flag like
noverbose or similar; it is not über important, but I think it is ugly
and unnecessary convoluted design as it is now.
- write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness?,
Arthur Miller <=