From 9e58fcdb1dd654b5fdbb5bf8621136b20efa999b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:54:16 +2000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting --- bf/d03d0f4d5488a2e30e21eb3139847ca1bd5426 | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bf/d03d0f4d5488a2e30e21eb3139847ca1bd5426 diff --git a/bf/d03d0f4d5488a2e30e21eb3139847ca1bd5426 b/bf/d03d0f4d5488a2e30e21eb3139847ca1bd5426 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a0a646643 --- /dev/null +++ b/bf/d03d0f4d5488a2e30e21eb3139847ca1bd5426 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC65429E41 + for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:54:23 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id fDG2G9goKdpb for ; + Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:54:23 -0800 (PST) +Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43B44429E3C + for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:54:23 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034082078.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net + ([156.34.82.78] helo=zancas.localnet) + by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa + (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1Ts2r0-0002UZ-3m; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:22 -0400 +Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1Ts2qu-0006tt-DS; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:16 -0400 +From: David Bremner +To: Austin Clements , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting +In-Reply-To: <1357249669-9706-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> +References: <1357174222-25132-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> + <1357249669-9706-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+234~g76bf9e9 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:16 -0400 +Message-ID: <87ip79r9d3.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-Spam_bar: - +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:54:23 -0000 + +Austin Clements writes: + +> We recently switched to popping up a buffer to report CLI errors, but +> this was too intrusive, especially for transient errors and especially +> since we made fewer things ignore errors. This patch changes this to +> display a basic error message in the minibuffer (using Emacs' usual +> error handling path) and, if there are additional details, to log +> these to a separate error buffer and reference the error buffer from +> the minibuffer message. This is more in line with how Emacs typically +> handles errors, but makes the details available to the user without +> flooding them with the details. + +pushed. + +d -- 2.26.2