From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>, 909@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#909: not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:37:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je3ak75b9q.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w5bpyv5f82.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:11:41 -0400")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
>> How about saying something like "Emacs will not function correctly in
>> this condition", or something of the sort, to emphasize that the
>> situation is quite bad?
>
> Should it cause an abort?
It's an external condition that Emacs has no control over (it could be a
temporary NFS problem, for example). Just aborting does not give any
clue what is wrong.
Andreas.
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2008-09-07 11:19 ` bug#909: not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning Dan Nicolaescu
2008-09-10 20:59 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-11 6:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-09-11 7:11 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-11 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-09-11 16:09 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-12 3:20 ` bug#909: marked as done (not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning) Emacs bug Tracking System
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