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From: yary <not.com@gmail.com>
To: 11612@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:51:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG2CFAbzxSSENUmyVQEEp0y_ehRfEZ_VSTLpzrjGzA8z9ck6uw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-8fVJ55Xj4BENwExkP5-qTDJbOr5346H6k7+gj5cgDnvg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Noam Postavsky
<npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I think the complaint is more about the wording of the message and
> less about the buffer/window configuration. So I propose rewording it
> to
>
>     Use of `C:\.emacs' to define `HOME' is deprecated, see (emacs)
> `Windows Home'
>
> This way the user will be pointed to the relevant section of the
> manual, and since the warning uses the same phrasing as the manual,
> searching for the warning should turn up links to that manual section
> as well.


Yes, thanks, that message is clear and would have prevented my
original bug report!





  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-25 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-02 18:58 bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup yary
2012-06-02 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-02 19:43   ` yary
2012-06-02 19:46     ` Drew Adams
2012-06-02 19:57       ` yary
2013-04-23 14:05         ` Michael
2013-04-23 17:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-03 19:38       ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-06-04  3:50       ` Jason Rumney
2012-06-04  4:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-04 13:24         ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25  3:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25  4:31   ` Drew Adams
2016-06-25  8:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 13:42     ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 13:51       ` yary [this message]
2016-06-25 14:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 15:30         ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-25 15:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-27  1:01             ` Noam Postavsky
2016-06-27 11:15               ` Andy Moreton
2016-06-27 12:04                 ` Noam Postavsky

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