From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:28:01 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030222002801.GC30157@gnu.org> References: <5xfzqibr72.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200302202026.h1KKQ7924606@rum.cs.yale.edu> <5xel619q67.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045873870 15528 80.91.224.249 (22 Feb 2003 00:31:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 00:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mNZG-00041n-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:31:02 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18mNnV-0003TM-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mNY5-0006CG-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:29:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mNXT-0005dj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mNWR-00044v-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:28:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mNWR-00044i-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18mNWL-0000Gf-00; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:28:01 -0500 Original-To: "Kim F. Storm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5xel619q67.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop Original-cc: rms@gnu.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11832 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11832 On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:20:32AM +0100, Kim F. Storm wrote: > > (Remember that error messages should not end with periods.) > > I know the general rule, but for a multi-sentence error message, it > seems strange not to terminate the last sentence with a period. Sometimes for e.g., a two-sentence message, you can just use a semicolon to make them into one sentence -- and then leave off the period. :-) > Since I will except that MANY users upgrading to 21.4 will be using > older versions of CUA, I decided to give a more elaborate error > message. Here is the complete text: Are you popping that message up in a window, instead of showing it in the echo-area? That seems like a different case than a standard error-message anyway (and certainly for what you showed, it would be silly to leave off the final period!). -Miles -- A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and said, "Make me one with everything."