Re: Is there a way to inhibit message3 from Elisp?

[Oleh Krehel]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> My particular use-case is that I'm doing completion in the minibuffer
>> with ivy.el, calling `shell-command-to-string' in the `post-command-hook'.
>> And when I enable `while-no-input' in my function, my minibuffer
>> contents get rudely interrupted by `call_process_cleanup' saying:
>>> "Waiting for process to die...done"
>> I'm sure that this message is needed and appericated,
>
> Actually, I'm not.  IIUC this message appears if a call-process is
> interrupted before the subprocess dies.   I think this message in not
> desired in general.  It's OK to emit such a message if call-process ends
> up waiting a non-negligible amount of time for the subprocess to die
> (so as to explain to the user why Emacs is not responding), but for the
> usual case where wait_for_termination returns quickly, we should not
> emit any message at all.
>
> Patch welcome to fix this problem.

Please check the scratch/inhibit-message3 branch.
I don't have experience with Emacs C code, let me know if I'm doing
something in a silly way.

I got this code to work as I expect:

(progn
  (setq inhibit-message t)
  (message "foo")
  (setq inhibit-message nil))

However, this doesn't work:

(let ((inhibit-message t))
  (message "foo"))

And I don't know why.

Oleh