From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 5122@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:11:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d42trs02.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838wdhjdpj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:47:04 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Error messages shouldn't be so verbose---they can't spell out every bell
>> and whistle related to the error.
>
> I'd say adding a couple of words is hardly verbose, and certainly
> isn't spelling out every detail.
>
>> I prefer leaving things the way they are.
>
> And leave users without a clue? how's that preferable?
The circumstances in which the parenthesis are mismatched probably
vastly outweigh the circumstances in which the user wants to change
blink-matching-paren-distance.
So, it is arguably more confusing to the average user if the error
message mumbles something about blink-matching-paren-distance. For
those who care, it's an apropos search away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-05 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-05 20:57 bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent Chong Yidong
2009-12-05 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 22:06 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-05 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 22:11 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-12-06 2:08 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with hugebuffercontent Drew Adams
2009-12-06 15:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-12-06 19:13 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-06 20:57 ` Drew Adams
2009-12-06 4:03 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-06 15:30 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-06 17:05 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with hugebuffercontent Drew Adams
2009-12-06 17:52 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-06 18:59 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-06 19:23 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with hugebuffercontent Drew Adams
2009-12-07 2:25 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent Stefan Monnier
2011-07-13 14:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-13 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2011-07-13 17:26 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-08 21:11 MON KEY
2009-12-04 15:31 bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffer content Deniz Dogan
2009-12-04 22:27 ` bug#5122: Mismatched parentheses when dealing with huge buffercontent Drew Adams
2009-12-05 0:27 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-12-05 0:31 ` Drew Adams
2009-12-05 0:35 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-12-05 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 16:10 ` Drew Adams
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