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Re: Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code?
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Miles Bader |
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Re: Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code? |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:28:01 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:20:32AM +0100, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > (Remember that error messages should not end with periods.)
>
> I know the general rule, but for a multi-sentence error message, it
> seems strange not to terminate the last sentence with a period.
Sometimes for e.g., a two-sentence message, you can just use a semicolon to
make them into one sentence -- and then leave off the period. :-)
> Since I will except that MANY users upgrading to 21.4 will be using
> older versions of CUA, I decided to give a more elaborate error
> message. Here is the complete text:
Are you popping that message up in a window, instead of showing it in the
echo-area? That seems like a different case than a standard error-message
anyway (and certainly for what you showed, it would be silly to leave off the
final period!).
-Miles
--
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said, "Make me one with everything."
Re: Can we add a check to see if user is using old or obsolete code?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/02/20