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bug#60854: Adjust icons shown with warnings
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#60854: Adjust icons shown with warnings |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:30:38 +0100 |
>>>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 07:51:19 +0100, Kévin Le Gouguec
>>>>> <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> said:
Kévin> Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 1/17/2023 2:19 PM, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
>>> Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Perhaps a bit better would be 🚫, whose official name is apparently "No
Entry
>>>> Sign", even though the slashed circle visual usually just means "No
____",
>>>> e.g. "No Smoking". Hence, some sources call it the Prohibited emoji.
>>> (My ¢2: wouldn't a cross mark (❌) also work to convey the idea of
>>> "suppressing" something?)
>>
>> That would work too. I still like turning this into a toggle button
where the
>> icon shows the current state (i.e. is it an active warning - ⚠️ - or has
it been
>> suppressed - ⚬). But changing to 🚫 or ❌ would be single-character
patches,
>> which is nice too.
Kévin> Sure, the toggle sounds like a nice idea regardless, since IIUC right
Kévin> now a user has to go through Customize to take warnings off either
Kévin> warning-suppress-*types.
Kévin> (Sorry for the idle musing, this is the first time I look at what
knobs
Kévin> warnings.el lets the user tweak.
Kévin> As things stand, if a user doesn't want to completely ignore a
warning,
Kévin> their only choices seem to be "pop *Warnings*" or "meh, tuck it in
Kévin> *Warnings* but don't pop; hopefully I'll remember to check that
buffer
Kévin> someday", is that correct?
Yes
Kévin> Might be nice to have further options for "suppression", e.g.…
Kévin> "don't pop the *Warnings* buffer, but display in echo area", or
Kévin> "… but add a modeline indicator"
Kévin> … but that's its own feature request)
Sure. Just donʼt turn that on by default :-)
>>> The new icons.el that comes with Emacs 29 would be a prime candidate for
>>> implementing this, right? It has the advantage of giving the user some
>>> degree of control via icon-preference.
>>
>> Yup, the icon we have today is implemented via icons.el:
>>
>> (define-icon warnings-suppress button
>> '((emoji "⛔")
>> (symbol " ■ ")
>> (text " stop "))
>> "Suppress warnings."
>> :version "29.1"
>> :help-echo "Click to suppress this warning type")
Kévin> (Ah, great, so we're only missing an 'image entry for that one.
Just a
Kévin> trivial matter of choosing what the image should look like then 😁)
Whilst youʼre changing stuff, the text should not be "stop", it should
be "suppress" or "ignore" or something.
Robert
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bug#60854: Adjust icons shown with warnings, Rudolf Adamkovič, 2023/01/22
bug#60854: Adjust icons shown with warnings, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez, 2023/01/17