From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38035: 27.0.50; Trivial errors in process filters can render Emacs unusable Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:55:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874kzmdv0q.fsf@gnus.org> <83ftj5hsal.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="115108"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 38035@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 04 04:56:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTTS-000TqL-M4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57538 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTTR-0007B6-ED for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:56:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTTI-00074h-HG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTTH-0005vO-BL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55133) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTTH-0005vB-8L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTTG-0008E5-4c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:56:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:56:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38035 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38035-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38035.157283975531607 (code B ref 38035); Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:56:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38035) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Nov 2019 03:55:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35721 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTT8-0008Dj-Sq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51482) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTT6-0008DV-Qq for 38035@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:55:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTT1-0005os-JD; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:55:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iRTT0-0007RA-E9; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:55:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83ftj5hsal.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:51:30 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170912 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The current idea for a fix is to let the error be displayed several > times, until and unless it is clear that the error is repeatedly > signaled with a very high frequency, and if so, disable the filter for > that process. > I think this strikes the right balance between showing the error to > users and still leaving Emacs in a usable state. Maybe it will work well. I won't argue against. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)