From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: 72733@debbugs.gnu.org, tpeplt@gmail.com
Subject: bug#72733: 29.4; Warning message while attempting to view customization buffer
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:28:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o7452uni.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmiwEcx9n51Ehpejm6nsEg3fsdEaWvqk4dJM6hrt-p8Tw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:12:12 -0700)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:12:12 -0700
> Cc: 72733@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:19:05 -0400
> >>
> >> Emacs Maintainers,
> >>
> >> Emacs 29.4 appears to be running some (uninitialized?) code when a
> >> sequence of sub-menus is selected. This results in a warning message
> >> about something that an Emacs user has not selected. Here is a recipe
> >> for reproducing the problem. I have run this several times and gotten
> >> the same result each time.
> >>
> >> 1. $ emacs -Q
> >>
> >> 2. M-x customize RET
> >>
> >> 3. The *Customize Group: Emacs* buffer is displayed. In this buffer,
> >> select "Programming" from the menu of the Emacs group.
> >>
> >> 4. The *Customize Group: Programming* buffer is displayed. In this
> >> buffer, select "Languages" from the menu.
> >>
> >> 5. A *Warnings* buffer is displayed in a new window. The following
> >> warning message is displayed in that buffer:
> >>
> >> ⛔ Warning (treesit): Cannot activate tree-sitter, because language grammar for ruby is unavailable (not-found): (libtree-sitter-ruby libtree-sitter-ruby.0 libtree-sitter-ruby.0.0 libtree-sitter-ruby.so libtree-sitter-ruby.so.0 libtree-sitter-ruby.so.0.0) No such file or directory
> >
> > It's a known issue for which there's no simple solution. We want
> > users who load ruby-ts-mode to know that they lack the Ruby grammar
> > library, which is what this warning is about. And Customize loads
> > ruby-ts-mode to allow its customization when you select Languages.
> >
> > We could perhaps shut up these specific warnings in that specific
> > situation, but that doesn't seem clean. And the warning is just a
> > warning, and harmless.
>
> Showing the warning doesn't seem very clean either.
Indeed. But all the other solutions were either much more complex or
concealed the warning in important cases.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-20 14:19 bug#72733: 29.4; Warning message while attempting to view customization buffer tpeplt
2024-08-20 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-20 17:04 ` tpeplt
2024-09-30 7:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-30 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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