Re: Please help me keep url-retrieve from spamming my *Messages* buffer.

> From: Jason Martens <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:45 -0400
> 
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Did you try setting url-show-status to nil?
> 
> Turns out I was looking at the wrong function.  I set SILENT to t there
> and it fixed the problem.
> 
> That does bring up a side question, though: if I did nothing to Emacs -
> i.e. no user input at all - the 'Opening connection:' message never went
> away, but showed in the echo area constantly.  Is that normal?

Yes.