Re: dolist?

[Miles Bader]

2005/7/3, Drew Adams <address@hidden>:
> There should either be two different functions, only one of which has this
> feature, or this should somehow be optional with `message'.

There could be a variable you bind to have it not do such suppression
(or to refine the algorithm it uses -- perhaps telling the message
code what prefix to consider a duplicate [instead of looking for
"..."]).

However, the standard `message' calls should probably be left as is. 
Most elisp programmers treat `message' as temporary output, and don't
consider that the results are logged, so they often write many
progress messages using `message'.  This looks great to the user, but
can make the message log completely useles by swamping it with
duplicate entries; the current suppression of duplicates tries to work
around this problem.

Documentation is of course a good thing...

-Miles
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