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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable direc
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Nikolai Weibull |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories |
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Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:02:34 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
* Tom Lord <address@hidden> [Apr 27, 2004 16:50]:
> I have a habit in tla code which may as well be promoted to "coding
> standard": filenames in error messages should be delimited on the left
> by ": " and on the right by newline. Keep the stuff to the left of
> the ": " as succinct as possible. As in:
>
> unable to frob patch log (permission denied)
> tree: /home/lord/wd/tla
> log: tla--devo--1.1
OK, sounds reasonable. This standard I can definitely live with. It
makes it very easy to visually extract the relevant information.
> That avoids the issue of whether to use ", `, or ' to delimit
> filenames, is easier to cut and paste, and tends to cope with
> longer filenames in messages better than most approaches.
That is very true,
nikolai
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Matthieu Moy, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Michael Poole, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andrew Suffield, 2004/04/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/04/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, tomas, 2004/04/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Tom Lord, 2004/04/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories,
Nikolai Weibull <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, tomas, 2004/04/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Andre Majorel, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Michael Poole, 2004/04/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Matthieu Moy, 2004/04/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [HEY TOM!] unhelpful error for unreadable directories, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/25