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bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:29:11 -0800 |
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On 01/10/13 13:40, Jim Meyering wrote:
> - error (0, errno, _("reading %s"), quote (src_name));
> + error (0, errno, _("failed to read %s"), quote (src_name));
Yes, that's fine too. It also avoids the gerund.
A terser possibility, which I've used elsewhere,
is something like this:
error (0, errno, _("%s: read failed"), quotearg_colon (src_name));
bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer, Benno Schulenberg, 2013/01/11
bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer, Pádraig Brady, 2013/01/17
bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer, Pádraig Brady, 2013/01/10