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Re: Displaying errors during startup
From: |
Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: |
Re: Displaying errors during startup |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:41:15 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) |
Lennart Borgman wrote:
After the recent discussion about error messages at startup (this time
it was about pure-space-overflow) it came to my mind I often tend to
miss errors at startup. You can not see them because of the splash
screen for example. I just started testing `lwarn' because of this. I
did something like this:
(condition-case err
(require 'something-bad)
(error
(lwarn '(.emacs) :error "%s" (error-message-string err))))
I wasn't aware of lwarn, so I checked it's doc string and found a
really minor error: the first period in the description of the
TYPE argument should either be deleted or replaced by a comma:
,----[ C-h f lwarn RET ]
| lwarn is an autoloaded Lisp function in `warnings'.
| (lwarn TYPE LEVEL MESSAGE &rest ARGS)
|
| Display a warning message made from (format MESSAGE ARGS...).
| Aside from generating the message with `format',
| this is equivalent to `display-warning'.
|
| TYPE is the warning type: either a custom group name (a symbol).
| or a list of symbols whose first element is a custom group name.
| (The rest of the symbols represent subcategories and
| can be whatever you like.)
|
| LEVEL should be either :debug, :warning, :error, or :emergency
| (but see `warning-minimum-level' and `warning-minimum-log-level').
|
| :emergency -- a problem that will seriously impair Emacs operation soon
| if you do not attend to it promptly.
| :error -- invalid data or circumstances.
| :warning -- suspicious data or circumstances.
| :debug -- info for debugging only.
|
| [back]
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Kevin Rodgers
Sr. Software Engineer, IHS