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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:54:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18mdrB-0006iw-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5xel619q67.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk)

    > (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.

I agree with you about error messages that are effectively paragraphs
rather than lines.  The example we were looking at was a single line.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-22 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 21:03 Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code? Kim F. Storm
2003-02-20 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-20 22:04   ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-21 21:44   ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-21 23:20     ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-22  0:28       ` Miles Bader
2003-02-22 22:37         ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-22 17:54       ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2003-02-20 21:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21  0:35   ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-21 16:41     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-22  8:15   ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-23 11:06     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-24 16:38       ` Richard Stallman

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