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Re: [Nano-devel] Checking permissions before opening file
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Benno Schulenberg |
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Re: [Nano-devel] Checking permissions before opening file |
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Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:44:37 +0100 |
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016, at 18:22, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 January 2016 17:52:24 Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > > > + if (errno == ENOENT)
> > > > + statusbar(_("Path '%s' does not exist"), parentdir);
> >
> > I don't like the words "No such *file*..." It's not supposed to be
> > a file, it /must/ be a directory. That's why I split out that one
> > case, to give a clearer error message.
>
> "No such file or directory" sounds clear to me. Moreover, the other error
> message does not say whether the path is a directory or not. So it hardly
> classifies as "a clearer error message" in my view.
Okay, I'll change it back to "Directory '%s' does not exist".
(To me "path" just means a string of directories, even when officially
a path can also include the filename itself.)
Benno
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