From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>
Cc: notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: hello: make --batch error gracefully
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:52:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9l7oeku.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob9svghw.fsf@zancas.localnet>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> I had a look at this, and I agree the current failure mode is not nice
> (it just says something mysterious about nil not being a string). On the
> other hand, I think we should use the two argument form of
> notmuch-logged-error, and the the first argument should say only what we
> know. Something like
>
> (notmuch-logged-error "notmuch count --batch failed"
> "notmuch count --batch failed
> Please check that the notmuch CLI is new enough to support `count
> --batch'. In general we recommend running matching versions of the CLI
> and emacs interface.")
I pushed an amended version along these lines; it turns out the first
argument does not need to be repeated.
d
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-27 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-04 22:18 [PATCH] emacs: hello: make --batch error gracefully Mark Walters
2013-07-06 9:06 ` Tomi Ollila
2013-07-07 10:21 ` Mark Walters
2013-07-13 8:06 ` Tomi Ollila
2013-07-24 2:28 ` David Bremner
2013-07-27 21:52 ` David Bremner [this message]
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