Add a fortune-message command

* lisp/play/fortune.el (fortune-message): Add a command to
display fortunes in the echo area (bug#14915).

Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 679532b89c727d1297c865797f1788cc7f9b5601..18810eabf2cf45472ccc8937e4ac68fc8c88d573 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1750,6 +1750,10 @@ details.
 It should be placed right where the docstring would be, and FORM is then
 evaluated (and should return a string) when the closure is built.
 
+---
+** The new command `fortune-message' has been added, which displays
+fortunes in the echo area.
+
 +++
 ** define-inline provides a new way to define inlinable functions.
 

diff --git a/lisp/play/fortune.el b/lisp/play/fortune.el
index 25fa3f66ef1ac35ea1fec6e6e962981ac2f1e933..4871c459023f17e57ff4e24644e559dd797e112a 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/play/fortune.el
+++ b/lisp/play/fortune.el
@@ -302,6 +302,19 @@ specifies the file to choose the fortune from."
                            (split-string fortune-program-options)
                          fortune-program-options) (list fort-file)))))))
 
+;;;###autoload
+(defun fortune-message (&optional file)
+  "Display a fortune cookie to the mini-buffer.
+If called with a prefix, it has the same behavior as `fortune'.
+Optional FILE is a fortune file from which a cookie will be selected."
+  (interactive (list (if current-prefix-arg
+                         (fortune-ask-file)
+                       fortune-file)))
+  (with-temp-buffer
+    (let ((fortune-buffer-name (current-buffer)))
+      (fortune-in-buffer t file)
+      (message "%s" (buffer-string)))))
+
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun fortune (&optional file)
   "Display a fortune cookie.