Re: [O] M-: (org-display-outline-path) doesn't work correctly

[Nicolas Richard]

Thorsten Jolitz <address@hidden> writes:
> Ok, I see ...  that seems to be a common pattern in Org-mode to make
> functions behave differently if called (non-)interactively, that
> sometimes causes confusion when using M-: instead of M-x.

Note that using M-: will always hide any (message "foo") might have
been called because M-: outputs the return value of the function.
Usually you can recover those by inspecting the *Messages* buffer, but
in this case org uses org-unlogged-message so you can't see it there
either.

Try this :
M-: (prog1 (org-display-outline-path) (sit-for 2)) RET
It shows the message (for up to 2 seconds), and then it is hidden by the
return value (a string with properties) when the call to M-: terminates.

-- 
Nico.