RE: How to suppress messages?

[Drew Adams]

    > I couldn't find any mention in the Elisp manual of a way to do this.
    > If I have a function that calls a function (a built-in, as it turns
    > out) that calls (message...), how can my function stop the message
    > from being displayed by the called function?

    (let ((message-log-max nil))
      ...)

Thanks, but that doesn't do it. It just stops logging to buffer *Messages*.
I want to stop messages from appearing in the echo area.