From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC65429E41 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:54:23 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fDG2G9goKdpb for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43B44429E3C for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:54:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from fctnnbsc30w-156034082078.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net ([156.34.82.78] helo=zancas.localnet) by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ts2r0-0002UZ-3m; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:22 -0400 Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ts2qu-0006tt-DS; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:16 -0400 From: David Bremner To: Austin Clements , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: Use the minibuffer for CLI error reporting In-Reply-To: <1357249669-9706-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> References: <1357174222-25132-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> <1357249669-9706-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+234~g76bf9e9 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87ip79r9d3.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam_bar: - X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:54:23 -0000 Austin Clements writes: > We recently switched to popping up a buffer to report CLI errors, but > this was too intrusive, especially for transient errors and especially > since we made fewer things ignore errors. This patch changes this to > display a basic error message in the minibuffer (using Emacs' usual > error handling path) and, if there are additional details, to log > these to a separate error buffer and reference the error buffer from > the minibuffer message. This is more in line with how Emacs typically > handles errors, but makes the details available to the user without > flooding them with the details. pushed. d