From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: comint read-only prompt Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:11:18 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208210011.g7L0BIs09930@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200208191540.g7JFemV13663@rum.cs.yale.edu> <1029772679.16562.13.camel@turtle.as.arizona.edu> <20020819234511.GD3763@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029888924 18587 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 00:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jdsmith@as.arizona.edu, monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, miles@lsi.nec.co.jp, simon.marshall@misys.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17hJ9f-0004pg-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:15:23 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hJbn-0002Hi-00 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:44:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17hJAn-00060a-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17hJ6B-0004gl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17hJ5t-0004bp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17hJ5l-0004Xw-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7L0Bf512210; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:11:41 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7L0BIs09930; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:11:18 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: miles@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20020819234511.GD3763@gnu.org> (message from Miles Bader on Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:45:11 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6694 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6694 Given how often this sort of complaint turns up (that a read-only property is a good solution except for the error message), how about this idea: If a signalling an error due to a read-only property, if the property's value is a string, use that as the error message rather than the default. Some such festure seems like a good idea. The basic handling of error message strings in Emacs is rather inflexible, so there is no existing feature we can use to do this. Doing it with a special-case kludge might be the best way, since it is easy.