bug#12895: 24.3.50; Replacement for flet

[Glenn Morris]

Antoine Levitt wrote:

> But I don't want to prevent messages from going to the *Messages*
> buffer, I want to prevent them from appearing in the minibuffer.
[...]
>                  (flet ((message (&rest args) nil))


? But this _does_ prevent messages from going to the *Messages* buffer,
as well as to the echo area. And so does binding message-log-max to nil.