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bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:11:09 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Error messages shouldn't be so verbose---they can't spell out every bell
>> and whistle related to the error.
>
> I'd say adding a couple of words is hardly verbose, and certainly
> isn't spelling out every detail.
>
>> I prefer leaving things the way they are.
>
> And leave users without a clue? how's that preferable?
The circumstances in which the parenthesis are mismatched probably
vastly outweigh the circumstances in which the user wants to change
blink-matching-paren-distance.
So, it is arguably more confusing to the average user if the error
message mumbles something about blink-matching-paren-distance. For
those who care, it's an apropos search away.
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent, Chong Yidong, 2009/12/05
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/12/05
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent,
Chong Yidong <=
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/12/05
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent, Chong Yidong, 2009/12/06
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with hugebuffercontent, Drew Adams, 2009/12/06
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/12/06
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent, Chong Yidong, 2009/12/06
- bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with hugebuffercontent, Drew Adams, 2009/12/06