Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting

Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:16 -0400

To: Austin Clements, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

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From: David Bremner


Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> 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

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