From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3579: 23.0.94; Customize: Cannot see error messages if use standalone minibuffer Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:21:32 -0800 Message-ID: <87wqh37db7.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <769A36CCB7F24081932EDA6DDE69C4D5@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392009854 27755 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2014 05:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3579@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 10 06:24:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjLu-00052n-5J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:24:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjLt-0004Zo-Mu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjLm-0004Zh-GC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjLe-0001KL-7f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:24:10 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47810) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjLe-0001KH-3x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjLd-0001Bs-Ta for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:24:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:24:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 3579 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3579-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B3579.13920097834492 (code B ref 3579); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:24:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3579) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Feb 2014 05:23:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33596 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjKg-0001AB-L9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:57827) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjKe-00019h-EH for 3579@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.14.154.233] (helo=building.gnus.org) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WCjKQ-0006fm-2X; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:22:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: <769A36CCB7F24081932EDA6DDE69C4D5@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:11:36 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1WCjKQ-0006fm-2X MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1392614566.68317@S3pCPqt/0RHquemgRSIRtg X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:85207 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Can't give a great recipe for this - you have to set up Emacs to use a > standalone minibuffer (separate frame) only. That's all you need to > do, I believe, to reproduce it. > > Edit an option value to make it invalid - e.g. edit an integer field > to be 2.5. Then choose Set for Current Session in the State menu. You > will not see an error message in the minibuffer frame (which is where > the echo area is), or anywhere else. The message does get logged to > *Messages*, but the user gets no feedback at all. > > Note that mouseover messages appear fine in the echo area. E.g. turn > off tooltip-mode and put the mouse over the State button. You will see > the text in the echo area. Likewise, other Emacs messages, as produced > by `message' and `error', for instance, appear fine in the echo > area. It is only Customize messages that do not appear anywhere. This was four years ago. Are you still seeing this problem? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/