[PD] (dynamically, temporarily) suppressing error message printing

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Hi,

When I dream about the Pd of the future one of the few new features I 
see (not so few as in Miller's dreams) is error handling.

In the meantime, is there a way to suppress (and restore) the printing 
of error messages in the console? Maybe by sending some message to pd?

I'm using [textfile] to read and write files, and sometimes I cannot 
foresee in advance whether a file exists or not, so I detect the file 
doesn't exist by checking whether the [textfile] contains any message 
after reading it (by banging it etc)... (ok I can't distinguish between 
file-not-found and empty file but it's fine for me by now)
So in these cases I'd like to avoid printing an error message for a 
condition that is indeed ok. Especially because it can happen a lot of 
times and generate a huge lot of "junk" (in this case) erro rmessages 
which make it difficult to read real useful output.

If I could send Pd a message to suppress error messages, I would do it 
just before reading the file and restore them just after...

Is that possible?
Any other trick?

P.S. in Pd Vanilla if possible.

thanks
m.

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