bug#13409: [patch] make some error messages clearer

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013, at 8:39, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
>       wwarn (_("%s: read failed"), src_name);
> 

When things go wrong, I would prefer to see a word like
"failed", "error", "mistake", "bad", "invalid" or "mayday"
at the beginning of the line (right after the command name).

cmd: error in something: /some/complicated/filename

cmd: /some/complicated/filename: error in something

The first form is to me much clearer than the second.
That something went wrong is the main thing, with
which file exactly is secondary, in my opinion.

Benno

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