Re: Temporarily turning message logging off

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <mailman.1141.1180003694.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>>>>   Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> He said "What do I have to do to turn message _logging_ off?"
> (emphasis added).  He didn't say he wanted to turn the _messages_
> themselves off.

I might have misunderstood.  Because the code he presented
silences the `message' function thoroughly and I sometimes do it
at that. ;-)

> If he wanted the latter, then indeed my suggestion
> will not help, but in that case, fsetting `message' itself, or
> defadvising it, is probably the way to go.

In addition, `message' will be required to return a value as
usual even if it is turned off, since there might be a program
that uses it.