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31 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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32 To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>,
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33 Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
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34 Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: tweak error buffer handling
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61 Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:
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63 > Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:
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65 >> How about showing all errors in the minibuffer (which could simply
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66 >> mean calling (error ...) and letting the Emacs top-level show it in
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67 >> the mini-buffer)? We could log the verbose error details (like
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68 >> stdout) to some other buffer that we don't automatically show, but
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69 >> instead simply reference from the minibuffer message
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71 > That sounds great. In an ideal world we could behave slightly
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72 > differently for fatal errors but the common errors are likely to be
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73 > transient (locked database errors) so getting these right (which this
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74 > would do) seems the important step.
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76 > My view is that we should push a fix like the above for 0.15. What do
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77 > other people think?
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79 Sounds reasonable. I have to admit the new reporting is a bit annoying
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80 for transient messages.
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