Re: Better error reporting and stuff on startup

Re: Better error reporting and stuff on startup

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:11:29 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote: 

TH> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>> That makes sense for any package, but not every package should need
>>> to implement something like it.  So it would be cool to extend the
>>> `message' mechanism in emacs, so that it allows for different
>>> severities (debug, info, warning?) and assign messages to packages,
>>> so that I could restrict *Messages* to show only warning messages
>>> from Gnus...
>> 
>> I don't really see how that would work.

TH> Well, maybe something like

TH>   (message 'gnus 'debug "Foo bar %s" (bla))

I see xdisp.c:Vmessages_buffer_name but it's not exposed to ELisp code
as a symbol.  If it were, (gnus-message) could let-bind it so Gnus
messages can go to a separate *Gnus Messages* buffer.  It would probably
be helpful for other packages too.  I don't know if there are issues
with that besides the obvious usability problem of multiple log buffers.

Ted

Re: Better error reporting and stuff on startup

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I see xdisp.c:Vmessages_buffer_name but it's not exposed to ELisp code
> as a symbol.  If it were, (gnus-message) could let-bind it so Gnus
> messages can go to a separate *Gnus Messages* buffer.  It would probably
> be helpful for other packages too.  I don't know if there are issues
> with that besides the obvious usability problem of multiple log buffers.

Having just one single message buffer is convenient for users, I think.

Although the default buffer size should probably be increased...

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