If we can agree on a name for a "be quiet" variable, I will patch saveplace to do the same. That one has been annoying me for a while, too. It uses write-region without an option to suppress its "Wrote" message.

Or, in contrast, savehist uses write-region and produces a message only when called interactively, otherwise it's quiet. Perhaps that's even better?

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com> wrote:
These kinds of messages interfere with minibuffer use when they appear. My recentf timer is hourly, yet I still notice it from time to time. I forcibly suppress the message in a messier way than I'd prefer.

It was on my list to one day submit a patch for the same thing with a defcustom called recentf-inhibit-messages.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lockywolf <for_emacs-recentf-patch_2023-12-21@lockywolf.net>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org,
>>      stefankangas@gmail.com,
>>      Lockywolf <for_emacs-recentf-patch_2023-12-21@lockywolf.net>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:04:30 +0800
>>
>> +(defcustom recentf-verbosity 1
>> +  "Whether to show verbose messages about low-level recentf actions.
>> +0 means to not show debugging messages related to the recentf machinery.
>> +1 means show messages that were printed by default on Emacs <= 31.1."
>> +  :group 'recentf
>> +  :type 'integer
>> +  :version "31.1")
>
> I think referring to the "Wrote..." messages as "debugging" is
> incorrect, since this is the normal Emacs operation when saving a
> buffer.

In context, and from the users point of view, this is not something one
should normally need to care about or look at.  I'd consider this
debugging output, myself.  Just my two cents, of course.