Re: MESSAGE (used in VM) invokes DIALOG_MESSAGE: Can this be suppressed? [message #88361 is a reply to message #88360] |
Wed, 16 April 2014 13:09   |
John Correira
Messages: 25 Registered: August 2011
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On 04/16/2014 03:52 PM, David Fanning wrote:
> Edward Hyer writes:
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>> A quick search revealed that
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>>> David Fanning said: Ugh, I *hate* MESSAGE
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>> Clearly MESSAGE is a bad habit, but I used it for a long time, and
>> so it's tough to weed out. The trouble is that when I run code
>> interactively, which is most frequent, it works pretty much exactly
>> how I want it to.
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> My goodness! I must have been having a bad day. I use MESSAGE all
> the time! Love it! :-)
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> Cheers,
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> David
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Yes, about 3.5 times per program :-)
~/idl/coyote $ grep -i 'message,' ~/idl/coyote/*.pro | wc -l
1294
~/idl/coyote $ ls -1 ~/idl/coyote/*.pro | wc -l
372
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