Re: Messages oddity

Phil Dobbin wrote:

> On 08/07/17 12:03, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > Phil Dobbin wrote:
> >
> >> I was trying to debug something in Vim today & I needed to see the
> >> fleeting error messages that flash by when Vim spots trouble. However
> >> when I run :messages all I get is:
> >> 'Messages Maintainer' followed by a name & email address (which I
> >> haven't included here because of privacy concerns).
> >>
> >> Has anybody seen this behaviour before?
> >>
> >> I'm running console Vim from the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories which is Vim
> >> 7.4 with included patches: 1-1689 & extra patches: 8.0.0056
> >
> > :messages does not show output from :echo. If you use :echomsg then it
> > does.
> >
>
> Hi Bram.
>
> :echomsg shows nothing.

Then somewhere there must be a ":messages clear".

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