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Re: Is there a way to get the last message?
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: Is there a way to get the last message? |
Date: |
Sun, 28 May 2017 16:12:37 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 |
On 2017-05-28, at 13:18, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2017 12:50:12 +0200 Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know about (current-message). However, this won't work:
>>
>> (defun get-last-message ()
>> "Try to get the last message."
>> (interactive)
>> (with-temp-buffer
>> (insert (or (current-message) ""))
>> (clipboard-kill-ring-save (point-min) (point-max))))
>>
>> M-x get-last-message puts the empty string into the clipboard and kill
>> ring.
>>
>> Apparently `current-message' is cleared before this command has a chance
>> to get it. This makes sense, but there is no `previous-message' command.
>>
>> Is there any way to get the last thing displayed in the echo area (from
>> `message' or possibly from `error', too)? This would be quite useful:
>> one could then paste it to a search engine to look up the internet for
>> some hints about the error/message.
>
> What about this:
>
> (defun get-last-message ()
> "Try to get the last message."
> (interactive)
> (with-current-buffer "*Messages*"
> (goto-char (point-max))
> (forward-line -1)
> (clipboard-kill-ring-save (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position))))
Thanks, I thought about something like that, too. It has one problem,
though:
(defun long-message ()
(interactive)
(message "Long\nmessage"))
Thanks anyway,
--
Marcin Borkowski