Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 11:11:49 +0530
From: Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org>
Cc: 60490@debbugs.gnu.org
On 2023-01-02 18:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> severity 60490 wishlist
> thanks
>
>> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:56:24 +0530
>> From: Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org>
>>
>> Opening sqlite db files from remote system over tramp (with M-x
>> sqlite-mode-open-file) fails with the following error in *Messages*:
>>
>> sqlite-mode-list-tables: Wrong type argument: sqlitep, nil
>
> The built-in SQLite support doesn't (yet) support remote DB access.
> So I'm converting this report to a feature request. Patches welcome.
>
In that case, it would be better to show a warning message that
it's not supported instead of failing with errors that gives no
hint to the user.
I disagree that we should show a warning in such cases. The user
asked Emacs to do something, and Emacs couldn't; the appropriate
response is to signal an error, not to show a warning. Showing a
warning would mean we don't abort whatever Lisp program that was
trying to do something we cannot do.
I agree that a more targeted error message would be beneficial;
patches for that are welcome as well.
Also, Emacs may also show the related bug number regarding such
issues so that interested users can subscribe to know updates.
We don't have any infrastructure in Emacs for doing stuff like that.
It would be a useful feature, I think (although not easy to
implement), but please submit a separate feature request for it.