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I found a robust solution described in this MathGroup message by Maxim Rytin: messageHandler = If[Last[#], Abort[]] & InternalAddHandler["Message", messageHandler] This will abort the computation whenever a message would be printed. It can be turned off using InternalRemoveHandler["Message", messageHandler] Alternatively this can be ...

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Solutions to algebraic or transcendental equations are expressed in terms of Root objects whenever it is impossible to find explicit solutions. In general there is no way express roots of 5-th (or higher) order polynomials in terms of radicals. However even higher order algebraic equations can be solved explicitly if an associated Galois group is solvable. ...

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Use Reduce[(1/x) Cosh[x/2] == Sqrt[2], x, Reals] or Solve[(1/x) Cosh[x/2] == Sqrt[2], x, Reals] the latter yields {{x -> Root[{-E^(-(#1/2)) - E^(#1/2) + 2 Sqrt[2] #1 &, 0.75858229952537718426}]}, {x -> Root[{-E^(-(#1/2)) - E^(#1/2) + 2 Sqrt[2] #1 &, 5.4693513860610533998}]}} For transcendental equations you may get with Reduce ...

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Here is my proposal for tagging messages with (the value of) an arbitrary expression at the time of message generation. The tag is placed inside the the message itself. ClearAll[withTaggedMsg] SetAttributes[withTaggedMsg, HoldAll] withTaggedMsg[exp_, label_: "When"] := Function[, InternalInheritedBlock[{MessagePacket}, Unprotect @ ...

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If you look carefully, you'll notice that the usage messages of package functions are nicely formatted. Notice the nice italicised and subscripted $x_1$. If you actually look in the package, you'll find a usage message that doesn't have any formatting at all, and even differs from the version ?DelaunayTriangulation gives us. ...

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I cannot seem to make it do exactly what you want do to how messages are created, but here is a serviceable alternative using $MessagePrePrint.$MessagePrePrint formats the variables specified in the message string, and in your example, the message has the form General::indet = "Indeterminate expression 1 encountered." where the 1 will be replaced by ...

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It is actually straightforward. You use Messages[symbol] to get the list, e.g. Power::infy (* trigger loading the message *) Messages[Power] (* {HoldPattern[Power::infy] :> "Infinite expression 1 encountered."} *) then, as it is a list of replacement rules, you can simply do Power::infy /. Messages[Power] (* "Infinite expression 1 encountered." *) ...

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What about something like this? Function[i, {i, ParallelEvaluate[i]};, HoldFirst][ Unprotect[Message, Check, Quiet]; Module[{$guardMes = True,$guardChck = True, $guardQuiet = True}, Message[args___ /;$guardMes] := Block[{$guardMes = False}, Message[args]; If[Head[First@{args}] =!=$Off, Abort[]]; ]; Quiet[args___ /; $guardQuiet] := ... 12 rcollyer has a nice solution. Here's another possibility using Check and printing the list of messages generated at the current evaluation. Quiet@Block[{$OldMessages = 0}, Do[Check[#^#/# &@Mod[i, 2], Print@StringForm["At i=, ", i, $MessageList[[$OldMessages + 1 ;;]]]; $OldMessages = Length@$MessageList;], ...

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Available messages The message ::argx is one of the general messages intended for use with any function. These have the special property of being called for any symbol used (placed left of ::): Message[foo::"argx", "foo", 2, 3] foo::argx: foo called with 2 arguments; 1 argument is expected. >> Use Messages[General] to see a list of these messages. ...

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I agree completely with J.M., Quiet is the answer. Implementing WithOff using Quiet is (as I'm sure you know) trivial. Here it is, just for fun: ClearAll[WithOff] SetAttributes[WithOff, HoldAll]; WithOff[msg_, expr_] := Quiet[expr, {msg}]; WithOff[Pattern::patv, rule = (f[x_Integer | {x__Integer}] :> g[x])]; rule2 = x_[x__] :> x;

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You can do something like this: resetMessages[symbol_] := With[{mysymbol = symbol}, Unprotect[$MessageList];$MessageList = DeleteCases[$MessageList, HoldForm[MessageName[mysymbol, _]]]; Protect[$MessageList];] And you will have to call it after each function... Sqrt[a, b, c, d]; Exp[a, b]; resetMessages[Exp]; Sqrt[a, b, c, d]; \ Exp[a, b]; ...

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As acl points out, this post shows you how to setup error highlighting for invalid number of arguments. Coming to the actual error messages used, there are three built-in messages attached to General, that can be used for your own functions as well. These are argx, argrx and argt: General::argx (* "1 called with 2 arguments; 1 argument is expected." *) ...

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New Method FJRA pointed out that my original method will fail in certain cases. Here is what I hope is a more robust approach: Unprotect[Message, $MessageList] Message[args___] /; ! TrueQ[$msgClear] := Block[{$msgClear = True},$MessageList = DeleteCases[$MessageList, HoldForm[Power::infy]]; Message[args] ] Now the specified message will print ... 8 The easiest and, so far, the best solution I have found is the following: (* Put the following two lines at the top of every notebook. *) messageHandler = If[Last[#], Interrupt[]] & ; InternalAddHandler["Message", messageHandler]; The above code is slightly modified from Szabolcs's solution at the beginning of this thread. I changed Abort to ... 8 You can define the function: messageIsOn[msg_]:=Head[msg]===String Which yields True if the message is on. Than do e.g: msgStatus=messageIsOn[Pattern::patv] If[msgStatus, Off[Pattern::patv]] < some calculation suppressing message Pattern::patv > (* Restore the message status *) If[msgStatus, On[Pattern::patv]] 6 First, note that turning off messages is technically not the same thing as not printing them. You can avoid printing messages by removing the output channel they're being sent to:$Messages = {} Restore the previous behaviour using $Messages =$Output, provided that you haven't changed $Output. But this won't turn messages off, it will only avoid ... 6 You do it exactly as you would do it on the main kernel. Following example which throws a message when it divides by zero: ParallelMap[1/# &, Mod[Range[30], 3]] Some people prefer to switch specific messages off beforehand. This can be done with ParallelEvaluate[Off[Power::infy]] ParallelMap[1/# &, Mod[Range[30], 3]] Or you use Quiet as ... 6 Following R.M's suggestion, and shamelessly lifting code from the Wizard’s fine answer there, you can use Stack[] and get the following: SetAttributes[withTaggedMsg, HoldAll] withTaggedMsg[] := Function[, InternalInheritedBlock[{MessagePacket}, Unprotect[MessagePacket]; MessagePacket[name__, BoxData[obj_, form_]] /; ! TrueQ[$tagMsg] := ...

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There were some attempts on that in this discussion. I also have this functionality in my debug function posted here

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Why don't you use Check. You could combine it with Reap/Sow or Throw/Catch. Here's an example that counts divisions by zero. SeedRandom[1]; list = RandomInteger[{-2, 2}, {100}]; Quiet[results = Reap[Table[Check[1/x, Sow["bad news"]], {x, list}]]]; Length[results[[2, 1]]] Of course, since the second argument of Check can be anything, you could arrange ...

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How about doing something as simple as sym1::msg = "I am feeling grumpy."; sym2::msg = sym3::msg = sym1::msg; Then Do[With[{ff = f}, Message[MessageName[ff, "msg"]]], {f, {sym1, sym2, sym3}}] Outputs sym1::msg: I am feeling grumpy. sym2::msg: I am feeling grumpy. sym3::msg: I am feeling grumpy.

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The following expression should result in an error: First@Cases[NotebookGet[EvaluationNotebook[]][[1]], Cell[___, CellTags -> "MyCode", ___]]] because Cases, by default, operates at level {1} and in a notebook's expression, CellTags will never be at level {1}. Thus, Cases returns {} and First throws an error. The solution here, is to use level ...

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It seems to me that there's a better approach, but one way is to define your own DownValue for this particular message. For example: Unprotect[Message]; Message[NIntegrate::maxp, its_, int_, err_] := Sow[err] Then NIntegrate[Sin[x]/Sqrt[x], {x, 0, 100}, Method -> "MonteCarlo", PrecisionGoal -> 6] // Reap (* Out: {1.07721, {{0.0761274}}} *)

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It's a bug: there are more than one call to Message[FindRoot::bbrac], and some of them are suppressed, but only if Quiet is used. Here's a way to check suggested by Szabolcs: messageHandler = Print[{##}] &; InternalAddHandler["Message", messageHandler]; Quiet@FindRoot[x == 1, {x, 0, 0.5}, Method -> "Brent"] <...> ...

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This "answer", if it can be considered an answer, consists of a mixture of comments and suggestions. Aside from dealing with levels as rm-rf has shown in another answer, one probably ought to deal with the possibility of Cases returning {}, even if it should not happen. How to deal with it is something you should decide. Here's a way to return Null, if ...

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First, I put $t = \sin x - \cos x$, eq1 = (3 - Cos[4x]) ( Sin[x] - Cos[x]) - 2 == 0; eq2 = t == Sin[x] - Cos[x]; Eliminate[ TrigExpand[ {eq1, eq2}], x] I receive 2 t - 2 t^3 + t^5 == 1 And then, I solve Solve[ 2 t - 2 t^3 + t^5 == 1, Reals] finally Reduce[ -Cos[x] + Sin[x] == 1, x, Reals] (C[1] ∈ Integers && x == π/2 + 2 π C[1]) || (C[1] ∈ ...

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