From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Displaying bytes Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> <874ooq8xay.fsf@wanchan.jasonrumney.net> <20091119141852.GC1720@muc.de> <20091119155848.GB1314@muc.de> <87aayiihe9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20091119180848.GE1314@muc.de> <47325.130.55.118.19.1258658705.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <20091119212550.GG1314@muc.de> <87my2ign8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259252660 18436 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 16:24:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 17:24:13 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 1NDh8c-0001nR-6x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:24:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44618 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDh8b-0002og-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:24:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDfnB-0000gC-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDfn7-0000Zg-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59818 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDfn7-0000ZI-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:26655 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDfn3-0003BE-Ue; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:50 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At8EAEcmDktFpYc//2dsb2JhbACBTNMihDEEihk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,294,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50076453" Original-Received: from 69-165-135-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.165.135.63]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 26 Nov 2009 09:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8B58DB40E9; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:24:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:117816 Archived-At: > 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. Perhaps pop up a buffer explaining what > 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. The origin of the problem can be so diverse 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. Stefan