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Re: Nested display strings


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: Nested display strings
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:13:54 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:51:51 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:53:04 -0300
>> 
>> A good/natural way for redisplay to signal such problems would be to
>> display them directly in the window (e.g. insert some threatening
>> question mark or some such, ideally with mouse-over highlighting and
>> a help-echo-like text explaining the problem).

EZ> Now, _that_ is what I call "obnoxious".

EZ> I actually thought about queuing a message for later, but someone
EZ> would need to implement such a facility first.

Maybe it could be a "something is broken" indicator in the modeline,
which when clicked pops up a help buffer with the list of problems.  It
could be used for general problems with display and font-lock, which
IIRC are sometimes hard to debug.

Ted




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