* Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in staticpro.
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@ 2012-10-18 20:39 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-18 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2012-10-18 20:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs developers
Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Actually, I don't like either version of that message. I think "increasing"
> binds more easily to "Emacs" than to "NSTATICS", leading to confusion. What
> about "NSTATICS too small; increase it and recompile EMACS."?
IMO, the second clause should be absent altogether, or say "please make
a bug report". As with puresize, this is not something users should be
changing.
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2012-10-18 20:39 ` /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in staticpro Glenn Morris
@ 2012-10-18 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-18 21:35 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-10-18 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:39:00 -0400
>
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
>
> > Actually, I don't like either version of that message. I think "increasing"
> > binds more easily to "Emacs" than to "NSTATICS", leading to confusion. What
> > about "NSTATICS too small; increase it and recompile EMACS."?
>
> IMO, the second clause should be absent altogether, or say "please make
> a bug report". As with puresize, this is not something users should be
> changing.
As long as we are bykeshedding, how about
NSTATICS should be enlarged.
?
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* Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in staticpro.
2012-10-18 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2012-10-18 21:35 ` Glenn Morris
2012-10-19 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2012-10-18 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> IMO, the second clause should be absent altogether, or say "please make
>> a bug report". As with puresize, this is not something users should be
>> changing.
>
> As long as we are bykeshedding, how about
>
> NSTATICS should be enlarged.
I don't think I'm bikeshedding, I'm trying to discourage people from
thinking that these parts are intended to be user-serviceable.
This kind of thing
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-10/msg00253.html
Now that I have set extra pure size to an obscene amount I
will never see the warning anymore.
is bad (IMO).
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* Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in staticpro.
2012-10-18 21:35 ` Glenn Morris
@ 2012-10-19 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-19 17:41 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-10-19 6:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:35:37 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> IMO, the second clause should be absent altogether, or say "please make
> >> a bug report". As with puresize, this is not something users should be
> >> changing.
> >
> > As long as we are bykeshedding, how about
> >
> > NSTATICS should be enlarged.
>
> I don't think I'm bikeshedding, I'm trying to discourage people from
> thinking that these parts are intended to be user-serviceable.
I don't see the connection. The issue here is that _maintainers_ of
Emacs who get the bug report will instantly know what to do instead of
running Emacs under a debugger or asking the OP to do so.
> This kind of thing
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-10/msg00253.html
>
> Now that I have set extra pure size to an obscene amount I
> will never see the warning anymore.
>
> is bad (IMO).
I agree, but I don't see a relation.
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* Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in staticpro.
2012-10-19 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2012-10-19 17:41 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2012-10-19 17:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't see the connection. The issue here is that _maintainers_ of
> Emacs who get the bug report will instantly know what to do instead of
> running Emacs under a debugger or asking the OP to do so.
fatal ("NSTATICS too small.");
conveys that information to me, and does not suggest that the user go
away and try to work around the problem without reporting it.
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