bug#60860: 29.0.60; set save-silently to t can not avoid messages when saving files

[Eason Huang]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:46:24 +0800
>> From: From: Eason Huang <aqua0210@foxmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Emacs dev team,
>>
>> I tried to set save-silently to t, but the saving file message will
>> still show on echo area, but it disappear immediately.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> 1. emacs -Q to launch Emacs
>> 2. eval (setq save-silently t)
>> 3. C-x, C-f open any file and edit the file
>> 4. C-x, C-s save the file
>>    Now you will see the message showing in the echo area in a short time
>
> This is macOS specific, I think, due to differences in how redisplay
> works on darwin.  I don't see this on GNU/Linux and on MS-Windows.  So
> it looks like the implementation does what it's supposed to do, and
> unless someone has ideas how to improve the result on macOS, I think
> we should close this bug as wontfix.
>

Hi Eli,

You are right, it macOS specific, I also can't reproduce it on Windows
10 with Emacs 29.



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Eason Huang