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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable silent visibility cycling
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:50:08 +0200
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Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> [I have no specific opinions on this patch.]
>
> The customary way is to put each message at different level.  The
> threshold level that the user wishes to see is configurable.  Any
> logging message that falls below or above that threshold gets filtered.
>
> This way you don't introduce switches on a case-by-case basis.
>
> No different from verbosity switches of some command lines or the log
> levels defined by `lwarn' etc.
>
> In the present case, you can make cycling messages at "newbie level".
> An "intermediate" or an "expert user" will not see those.  What
> constitutes a level could ofcourse be defined differently ...

Yes, it would of cource be nice to have different levels for (logging)
messages, but that seems to be a bigger project - for all of Org-mode or
even all of Emacs. So I rather propose this special-case patch where
default messaging was a bit too verbose sometimes. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten