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Re: ambiguous @*table with argument missing formatter argument message


From: pertusus
Subject: Re: ambiguous @*table with argument missing formatter argument message
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 12:29:40 +0100

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 07:16:23AM -0800, Raymond Toy wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 11:40 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > How about "bad or missing @table argument: 'FOO'" ?
> >
> 
> This works for me, except I'd separate out the two cases:  "Missing @table
> argument." and "Bad @table argument: FOO".  I think error messages should
> be as simple and as explicit as possible and provide whatever information
> that caused it to make it easier for a user to figure out what's going on.

In the end I separated the two cases, because it was simpler to code it
with two separate cases...

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=9621a3d7f3e7845015e99187cceb07eb403fb81f

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Pat



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