GNU bug report logs - #13326
document how to include more types of error messages in view-echo-area-messages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 13:48:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: document how to include more types of error messages in
	view-echo-area-messages
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:46:27 +0800

We see

   C-h e runs the command view-echo-area-messages, which is an
   interactive compiled Lisp function in `help.el'.

   It is bound to C-h e, <f1> e, <help> e.

   (view-echo-area-messages)

   View the log of recent echo-area messages: the `*Messages*' buffer.
   The number of messages retained in that buffer
   is specified by the variable `message-log-max'.

However underfed key messages don't end in there and indeed have no way
to be captured. So perhaps the above description should mention how to
capture them,
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