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bug#51335: 29.0.50; Use warnings facility for reporting Gnus errors
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#51335: 29.0.50; Use warnings facility for reporting Gnus errors |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:37:40 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> - Calls `ding'. This function returns nil on my system, dunno if it does
> anything on other systems.
(ding) gives a beep and/or flashes the "visual bell", but many people
has switched off both -- so you get neither.
> That means there are only
> three places where the `message' isn't immediately swallowed by whatever
> comes next (and there's almost always another message coming next),
> which really means there are only three places where `gnus-error' does
> anything different from `gnus-message'.
Well, it depends on how you've configured your messaging level...
> I think the main concerns here are making sure the user actually sees
> important messages, through a combination of splitting them off into
> their own buffer, so they don't get lost in *Messages*, and potentially
> delaying display until a particular action is complete, and the user has
> a chance to see them.
My worry is that we're annoying users with warnings that aren't interesting.
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