Re: Suppress (pop kill-ring) from *Messages*

[Tim Johnson]

* Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> [151101 12:39]:
> 
> On 2015-11-01, at 20:53, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > I often prefer to have an item popped off of the kill ring
> > programmatically/automatically.
> >
> > If I invoke (pop kill-ring) from some elisp code, the top item shows in in 
> > *Messages*
> 
> I would guess that what you are doing is M-: (pop kill-ring) or
> something similar.  Since `pop' returns the popped value, it is then
> shown.
> 
> On the other hand, this:
> 
> (defun pop-from-kill-ring ()
>   "Pop an item from kill-ring and discard it."
>   (interactive)
>   (pop kill-ring))
> 
> does not show anything when invoked via M-x pop-from-kill-ring, and
> shows the discarded value again when invoked via
> M-: (pop-from-kill-ring)
  Yes! And this is very handy to know for other applications.
  Thanks very much
-- 
Tim 
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