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Is there a way to filter out certain messages from being echoed in the echo-area while still being logged in to the Messages buffer ?

Use case scenario being an aggressive backward delete in the minibuffer yields a Text is read-only message when the point hits the prompt. I find this highly distracting.

Vamsi
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You can hack just about any function with defadvice, although debugging advised functions is quite difficult:

(defadvice message (around my-message-filter activate)
  (unless (string-match "Text is read-only" (or (ad-get-arg 0) ""))
    ad-do-it))
shosti
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    Yeah, looks like advicing is the only way. I was hoping there was an inbuilt filter or something. BTW the above snippet does not log to the *Messages* buffer though that is easily fixed by changing the conditional to if and sending the string manually to the *Messages* buffer. I will wait for a day before accepting it. – Vamsi Sep 23 '14 at 23:42
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    AFAICT this doesn't work any messages in the echo area that get triggered by the C source. For example the end of buffer message. – Joseph Garvin Dec 20 '14 at 21:24