Subject: Re: bug#79253: Add timestamps to *Messages*

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:45:46 -0400

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  > I am trying to debug a Tramp problem, and I need associate Tramp debug
  > log entries with entries in the *Messages* buffer.

Ordinary Emacs editing is sequential and only the order matters.
For people like me, whi do that, timestamps would be unhelpful clutter.
So if we implement timestamps, there should be an easy way to turn them off.

Or an easy way to specify which messages should have timestamps.
Perhaps with a list of regexps that gives timestamps to a message
if it matches any of those regexps.

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