Re: message logging (*Messages*)

[Karl Fogel]

Wow.  What a fine idea.

-K

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> In the *Messages* buffer I see an awful lot of stuff like --
> 
>    Loading tool-bar...
>    Loading tool-bar...done
>    Loading image...
>    Loading image...done
>    Loading tooltip...
>    Loading tooltip...done
> 
> And sometimes things like
> 
>    Foo...
>    Foo....
>    Foo.....
>    Foo......
> 
> The message logging code already coalesces identical message; how about
> having any message that *extends* the previous message, replace it?
> 
> This would nicely reduce the verbosity of the above two cases, and I
> don't think it would lose much information -- it's almost always the
> case that the second, longer, message implies the presence of the first.
> 
> Doing this would make the *Messages* buffer much easier to read, I think;
> compare:
> 
>    Loading tool-bar...done
>    Loading image...done
>    Loading tooltip...done
>    Foo......
> 
> -Miles
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