Re: Issues with Emacs master?

[Andreas Röhler]

On 05.08.19 21:44, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > > (to know about python-indent-offset) I get in the minibuffer,
> > > > > - on Windows (MSYS2/MINGW64 build):
> > > > >     "Shell native completion is disabled, using fallback"
> > > > > - on GNU/Linux Mint 19.1 (Cairo build):
> > > > >     "Shell native completion is enabled."
> [...]
> > Customizing `python-indent-guess-indent-offset-verbose` to nil should avoid
> > this message. IMO nil by default seems reasonable.
> Hmm, the code I see for it is:
>
>      python.el-      (if (and indentation (not (zerop indentation)))
>      python.el-          (set (make-local-variable 'python-indent-offset) 
> indentation)
>      python.el:        (when python-indent-guess-indent-offset-verbose
>      python.el-          (message "Can't guess python-indent-offset, using defaults: 
> %s"
>      python.el-                   python-indent-offset))))))))
>
> so the message it controls seems to be quite different from the message
> that the OP sees.
>
>
>          Stefan
Referred to mentioned

"Can’t guess python-indent-offset, using defaults: 4"

BTW that's a thing noticed here too for a certain time.

Not a serious bug, but not helpful, worth fixing.

Guessing indent OTOH is costly and reasonably off by default.