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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-04-01 17:54:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-04-06 18:50:54 -0400 |
| commit | 856ec9ffa1fb4ff7e992b25bb0614ae168d5531e (patch) | |
| tree | bb3b77b317d705f78e58d23cde0bcc306fea95d9 | |
| parent | 849a0aaa1c9352a1bf06f4fa3369e8ed02c6b438 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-856ec9ffa1fb4ff7e992b25bb0614ae168d5531e.tar.gz | |
* src/xdisp.c (vmessage, message): Clarify commentary.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/xdisp.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/xdisp.c b/src/xdisp.c index 9ecfb86401d..c6f85665232 100644 --- a/src/xdisp.c +++ b/src/xdisp.c @@ -10470,9 +10470,12 @@ message_with_string (const char *m, Lisp_Object string, bool log) /* Dump an informative message to the minibuf. If M is 0, clear out any existing message, and let the mini-buffer text show through. - The message must be safe ASCII and the format must not contain ` or - '. If your message and format do not fit into this category, - convert your arguments to Lisp objects and use Fmessage instead. */ + The message must be safe ASCII (because when Emacs is + non-interactive the message is sent straight to stderr without + encoding first) and the format must not contain ` or ' (because + this function does not account for `text-quoting-style'). If your + message and format do not fit into this category, convert your + arguments to Lisp objects and use Fmessage instead. */ static void ATTRIBUTE_FORMAT_PRINTF (1, 0) vmessage (const char *m, va_list ap) @@ -10530,6 +10533,7 @@ vmessage (const char *m, va_list ap) } } +/* See vmessage for restrictions on the text of the message. */ void message (const char *m, ...) { |