From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Displaying bytes Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:28:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87my2ign8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259255704 28078 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 17:15:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:15:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 18:14:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NDhvj-0007g2-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:14:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDhvj-00083y-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:14:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDhDd-0001Zu-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDhDY-0001SN-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52096 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDhDX-0001Rl-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:29:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.210.175]:60953) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDhDR-000661-2L; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:29:09 -0500 Original-Received: by yxe5 with SMTP id 5so836214yxe.24 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:29:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=D2b9wC82drEF0IAmQUxJsp96KUPoABqc+rfzN+YI+Kw=; b=hFpT1zYndGBSKAtdQLstMVyp6OAwYAoXvatl9eAPgva6ARWALDfC9nH8qi/MlHE6Wj pkrf7MDQOP2XYxmFElCrZhsI9SqNijVysKx+gH9mDTXslbxBiiL2/czBzRLpNf/nkeQv Lx8U4pQ3tf0nhBdyyfZvu4V7OZxXPvuYxGWb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d5cwo5l/CXJzQvycDLHEv7toqr5pYYntqFh4W78jK7VDpxOWHec3aW8ETXMAELj5Fx Z9NGE8Na4E6kU3wo/d+ZXbMly0FneUJxmPZoOynOHUaNMKsKsYOFylbxlCoPCpNYK+5a z5uP/y10na2OZu8CDMxuBlnOE37gIQ4oUD2ZE= Original-Received: by 10.101.61.20 with SMTP id o20mr6370428ank.166.1259252947098; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:29:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117823 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> If it is nearly always due to a bug, a user error, or bad data, >> perhaps it would be good to display a diagnostic after file commands >> that put them in the buffer. =C2=A0Perhaps pop up a buffer explaining wh= at >> these mean and what to do about them. > > If someone wants to take a stab at it, that's fine by me, but it looks > way too difficult for me. =C2=A0The origin of the problem can be so diver= se > that it'll be difficult to come up with instrcutions that will be useful > and will not confuse a significant part of the user population. Is that not good enough instructions to put up?