From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 6857@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6857: shell-command should say where it is talking about
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:00:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38vsgrdee.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6c9jdr2.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:38:41 +0800")
jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> M-! (translated from <escape> !) runs the command shell-command, which
> is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
>
> OK, but in its error message,
>
> (Shell command failed with code 99 and some error output)
>
> you had better tell the user just what buffer to look for that error
> output in, lest he have to figure it out himself. Not impossible but not
> friendly. emacs-version "24.0.50.1".
In what cases do you get an error message saying
(Shell command failed with code 99 and some error output)
?
I get error messages like:
/bin/bash: lala: command not found
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-02 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-14 17:38 bug#6857: shell-command should say where it is talking about jidanni
2011-07-02 14:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-02 20:42 ` jidanni
2011-07-02 21:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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