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Re: master 5b3c4004a9 2/2: Remove calls to intern with a static string f


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: master 5b3c4004a9 2/2: Remove calls to intern with a static string from code that runs on X
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:13:04 +0000


Apparently you have a bug in your configuration, why should Emacs be adapted to circumvent the bug in your configuration?

Why do you jump to the conclusion that it is a bug?


I do not jump to a conclusion, I said "apparently". But you cannot share a screenshot, you do not want to share a recipe, it doesn't happen with emacs -Q nor with my configuration. All that is not conclusive, but it points to a bug.

When say git prints an error message, it's not a paragraph in prose.

The message printed upon compilation failing is not simply an error message, it is detailed advice for the user. Such advice should definitely not be a terse (meaning difficult to understand) bullet list, littered with uses of the second person pronoun.


It's a detailed advice, and it's not difficult to understand, it lists a few commands that the user might try to use to fix the problem. It is not "littered with uses of the second person pronoun" either, there's a single "You" at the beginning (and I don't see what's wrong with that).

Do you know other program that prints a paragraph in prose when a failure occurs?

When git or any other program prints an error message, it generally does not try to tell the user about an elaborate series of steps that could solve the problem.


Let's see...

$ git push
fatal: The current branch my-new-branch has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

    git push --set-upstream origin my-new-branch

No, these !BEWARE! are like a traffic warning sign. If the warning text itself had been written in capitals, that could have been considered as "yelling".

A speed limit/camera warning is supposed to yell at you, and it doing so is justified. "!BEWARE!" followed by a mundane warning about git is not.


It's not a "mundane" warning, "git clean -fdx" deletes files and they cannot be recovered, which is something a non-expert git user might not be aware of, so I don't see what's wrong with that warning.

But this isn't leading anywhere, let's agree to disagree.



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