Re: write-region & visit flag to shut the chatiness?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:52:53 +0100
> 
> 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?

Because writing to a file is something we want the user to be aware
of.  And because Emacs behaved like that forever.

> 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.

We already have message-log-max which you can bind to nil to disable
logging a message.