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31 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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32 To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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33 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting
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58 Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:
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60 > We recently switched to popping up a buffer to report CLI errors, but
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61 > this was too intrusive, especially for transient errors and especially
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62 > since we made fewer things ignore errors. This patch changes this to
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63 > display a basic error message in the minibuffer (using Emacs' usual
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64 > error handling path) and, if there are additional details, to log
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65 > these to a separate error buffer and reference the error buffer from
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66 > the minibuffer message. This is more in line with how Emacs typically
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67 > handles errors, but makes the details available to the user without
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68 > flooding them with the details.
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