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Re: remember(-diary).el
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Michael Olson |
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Re: remember(-diary).el |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:13:34 -0500 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Michael Olson <address@hidden>
>> I want to be able to pop up a warning window upon loading a file
>> (this window can be disabled by the user) which tells people of the
>> issue, and which registry key to change in order for it not to be a
>> problem anymore.
>
> That's be harassing the user, a very un-Emacsy thing to do, IMO.
I don't think of it as harassing the user -- if something has
nondeterministic behavior whenever its source code gets checked out, I
want to warn people about it. Obviously the message that appears would
need to be invective-free and informative. And since it appears during
load, it needs to contain instructions for how to disable the display of
the message.
As for un-Emacsy, perhaps. Nonetheless, since the particular program
that I have in mind writes a lot of files, which each produce a message,
it is the case that warning windows are the best way to indicate that an
error has occurred, or that an error may be likely to occur.
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