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Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in static


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r110582: Fix wording of error message in staticpro.
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:38:04 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:35:37 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> IMO, the second clause should be absent altogether, or say "please make
> >> a bug report". As with puresize, this is not something users should be
> >> changing.
> >
> > As long as we are bykeshedding, how about
> >
> >   NSTATICS should be enlarged.
> 
> I don't think I'm bikeshedding, I'm trying to discourage people from
> thinking that these parts are intended to be user-serviceable.

I don't see the connection.  The issue here is that _maintainers_ of
Emacs who get the bug report will instantly know what to do instead of
running Emacs under a debugger or asking the OP to do so.

> This kind of thing
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-10/msg00253.html
> 
>   Now that I have set extra pure size to an obscene amount I
>   will never see the warning anymore.
> 
> is bad (IMO).

I agree, but I don't see a relation.



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