I've configured Emacs to save recentf every five minutes by using this code:
(run-at-time nil (* 5 60) 'recentf-save-list)
It works great, but after writing recentf Emacs feels it has to tell me about it, so every 5 minutes I get a message in the minibuffer telling me it wrote recentf.
How do I silence that message?
One solution for that narrow case is to dynamically set save-silently for that invocation specific invocation. Try:
(run-at-time nil (* 5 60)
(lambda ()
(let ((save-silently t))
(recentf-save-list))))
You might alternatively use advice to globally accomplish the same thing. See Advising Functions in the Emacs Lisp Manual.
