From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs crash backtrace. Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:13:13 +0000 Message-ID: References: <878rkmyoe8.fsf@laptop.lockywolf.net> <87edud7hxj.fsf@yahoo.com> <871qqd7eaw.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21811"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Po Lu , Vladimir Nikishkin , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 10:14:30 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oshAD-0005OB-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 10:14:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1osh9K-00033q-EM; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:13:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1osh9B-00033S-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:13:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1osh98-0004zp-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ma.sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 2A99DC1q025021 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Wed, 9 Nov 2022 09:13:12 GMT In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 08 Nov 2022 09:18:21 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=akrl@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:299394 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Po Lu [2022-11-08 21:42:47] wrote: >> Andrea Corallo writes: >>> not sure if this was discussed already but, shouldn't we warn the user >>> running an Emacs in such unsupported configuration? >> That's already done so, in NEWS and other associated documentation. > > I think Andrea was thinking of something more "in your face", like on > the splash screen or in the *scratch* buffer's initial text, or as > a `display-warning`, ... Exactly, if Emacs is not supposed to work properly in a certain configuration I believe we definitely should inform the user of this. Andrea