Re: How to turn off visibility-state messages from 'org-cycle?

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Try this:
>
>     (defadvice org-cycle-internal-local
>       (around org-cycle-internal-local-suppress-messages activate)
>       "Do the local cycling action, but suppress messages."
>       (letf (((symbol-function 'message) (symbol-function 'ignore)))
>         ad-do-it))
>
>     (defadvice org-cycle-internal-global
>       (around org-cycle-internal-global-suppress-messages activate)
>       "Do the global cycling action, but suppress messages."
>       (letf (((symbol-function 'message) (symbol-function 'ignore)))
>         ad-do-it))
>
> You can also use `flet' form to `ignore' the `message'.

Thats nice, thank you. 

On the other hand, I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to add my "patch"
to org.el, since unconditionally writing messages for every
visibility-state change produces quite a lot of clutter, so the user
should be able to turn this off IMO.

> Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi List, 
>>
>> when calling Org-mode functionality form an external program, some
>> functions seem to make use of 'org-cycle', what results in a lot of
>> "OVERVIEW" messages arriving at stdout/stderr
>>
>> ,---------
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | OVERVIEW
>> | ....
>> `---------
>>
>>
>> that are not really helpful and a bit of a hassle.
>>
>> ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | (org-cycle &optional ARG)
>> |  ....
>> |
>> | - When this function is called with a prefix argument, rotate the entire
>> |   buffer through 3 states (global cycling)
>> |   1. OVERVIEW: Show only top-level headlines.
>> |   2. CONTENTS: Show all headlines of all levels, but no body text.
>> |   3. SHOW ALL: Show everything.
>> `-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Is there a way to turn these message off? I found things like
>> 'org-no-popups or 'org-no-warnings but nothing like
>> "org-no-visibility-state-messages" or so. Its not really a big problem,
>> rather an inconvenience, but maybe its easy to solve when knowing where
>> to look.
>
>

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten