bug#46025: 28.0.50; warning suppression buttons truncate warnings

[Stefan Kangas]

No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com> writes:

> The warning suppression buttons introduced in
> 66d01012ba61a364fe92cdc1728bfa135a90626a truncate warning messages.
> I have offered a trivial patch in the past to have an option to disable these
> buttons:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-09/msg01405.html
>
> Lars did not see it as a valid use case. His argument (summarized):
>
>> since you get the warnings so seldom, it makes sense
>> to have the very few you see come with ready-made ways of making them go
>> away, and then you're back to no warnings again.
>
> Initially I thought the idea of the buttons was useful, but after thinking on 
> it
> more
> I agree with the case against these buttons Jonas Bernoulli made here:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-11/msg00768.html
>
> I would add to that, the fact that the buttons truncate the warning messages
> makes it impossible for a user to make an informed decision on whether or not
> they should be suppressing the warning. The truncated messages are equally
> useless to me as a developer. Here's an image someone sent me of the warnings 
> on
> their system:

Yes, it seems useless to have these buttons in their current form.

Could we at least disable them until they are fixed to not truncate
warnings?  They hide the contents of legitimate warnings.

> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2872862/105290265-42526580-5bb0-11eb-962d-b56f71b6efc0.png
>
> While I politely encouraged them to send text in the future for such output,
> here's what I would've received:
>
> Warning (comp): Debugger entered--Lisp error:  
> (native-compiler-error-empty-byte
> "/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/straight/straight-au..."
> "/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/straight/straight-au...\
> ") Disable showing Disable logging
> Warning (comp): Debugger entered--Lisp error:  
> (native-compiler-error-empty-byte
> "/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/bind-key/bind-key-au..."
> "/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/bind-key/bind-key-au...\
> ") Disable showing Disable logging
> Warning (comp): Debugger entered--Lisp error: 
> (native-compiler-error-empty-byte
> "/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/use-package/use-pack..."
> "/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/use-package/use-pack...\
> ") Disable showing Disable logging
>
> It's only by luck I can see enough of the file path to know which files are
> throwing the errors.
>
> Is there a way to work around this (absent my patch)?