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bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:16:17 +0300 |
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:28:55 -0400
> Cc: yary <not.com@gmail.com>, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
> Michael <mblischke@att.net>, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
>
> So it's just a matter of changing the warning message to something a
> little more informative, right? What's the best way of referencing the
> a manual node in a warning message? In Lisp I could make a hyperlink
> like this:
>
> (display-warning 'initialization
> (concat "Use of `C:\\.emacs' to define `HOME' is
> deprecated, see "
> (make-text-button "HOME and Startup
> Directories on MS-Windows" nil
> :type 'help-info
> 'help-args '("(emacs)
> Windows HOME"))))
>
> it's a bit more awkward from C, and I'm not sure if make-text-button
> can be called that early in the initialization process.
It wouldn't have helped anyway. However, nowadays this warning is
added to delayed-warnings-list, whose display is handled in Lisp.
FWIW, repeating the OP's recipe, Emacs now starts with a split-window
configuration, with the selected window showing the *scratch* buffer,
and the *Warnings* buffer displaying the above-mentioned warning. So
I'm not sure the original complaint is still valid.
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/24
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Drew Adams, 2016/06/25
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/25
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, yary, 2016/06/25
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/25
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/25
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/25
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/26
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Andy Moreton, 2016/06/27
- bug#11612: 24.1; Defaults create warning on startup, Noam Postavsky, 2016/06/27