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Contovounesios" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#40750: Use error face for errors Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:35:26 +0000 Message-ID: <871ree5h29.fsf@tcd.ie> References: <87eeie8ebe.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32024"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 40750@debbugs.gnu.org, ndame To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 18:39:02 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l2dvB-0008BM-G6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:39:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35618 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2dvA-0007bR-GD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2dsI-0004aH-IP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l2dsI-0006kj-AM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1l2dsI-0000tc-88 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:36:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Basil L. 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It makes errors more conspicuous in >> the echo area and the Messages buffer, distinguishing them from regular >> messages. > > I think having Emacs using red for error message in the echo area etc > would look pretty odd? Anybody got an opinion here? I agree, but in theory there could be a customisable face for this that defaults to the current default. But is it even possible to systematically tell whether a given message corresponds to an error? -- Basil