From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displaying bytes
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4oohwd1k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NDXmK-0007nR-Un@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:24:32 -0500")
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-18 19:12 [acm@muc.de: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.] Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 1:27 ` Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 8:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 8:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-19 10:16 ` Fwd: " Andreas Schwab
2009-11-19 12:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 13:21 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 14:58 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 15:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 15:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 16:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-19 16:47 ` Aidan Kehoe
2009-11-19 17:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 18:21 ` Aidan Kehoe
2009-11-20 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-19 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 3:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-19 16:55 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 18:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 19:25 ` Davis Herring
2009-11-19 21:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 22:31 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 2:08 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 20:38 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 21:34 ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 1:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-11-25 2:29 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 2:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 6:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-25 5:40 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Ulrich Mueller
2009-11-26 22:59 ` Displaying bytes Reiner Steib
2009-11-27 0:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-11-27 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 4:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-25 5:59 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-25 8:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-11-29 16:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-29 16:31 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly Stefan Monnier
2009-11-29 22:01 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-30 6:05 ` tomas
2009-11-30 12:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-30 12:39 ` tomas
2009-11-29 22:19 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Kim F. Storm
2009-11-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-24 1:28 ` Displaying bytes Stefan Monnier
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 6:24 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-26 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-26 16:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 6:36 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-20 8:48 ` Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 20:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 22:16 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-20 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 21:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 21:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 23:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:50 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 23:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-20 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 3:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 4:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 5:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 6:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 6:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 7:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-23 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 12:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 13:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 14:36 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 17:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 23:30 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 1:27 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-22 8:06 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 23:52 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-19 17:08 ` Fwd: " Alan Mackenzie
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