From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/71876 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Better error reporting and stuff on startup Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:11:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87hbhcxtm6.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87ocbkbesu.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285524746 20040 80.91.229.12 (26 Sep 2010 18:12:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:12:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M20249@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Sep 26 20:12:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ozvi4-0008Km-Fu for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:12:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzvhL-0000Od-2A; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OzvhJ-0000ON-9i for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:11:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OzvhF-0001Pc-4A for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:11:37 -0500 Original-Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OzvhE-0002nX-00 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:11:32 +0200 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975156BAA for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:11:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=OvYKeHAxcimU8oJJLt+aaJhFums=; b=jZT3zQebf3NchvXm6h1tkz5WlfrSgKokPiDqGdmHmsjj8lYMoEiKmvPBTDyP3R3BxeKxjGgM+DjiuAnx61sogaNGm3kSt1kUhR8MJcQRkh1VGKdtiA4vFlLvIuSKV6U6WRDhjtjuii8wo2rlqgGtHVZa6tEFmNhRLdMKTiTre5U= X-Sasl-enc: lYwMwjOccJnxZeGtmegsn+y3940TUOCHCnHG3zXCKMD3 1285524691 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF0DEF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.13.239]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C4E8F40089E for ; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:11:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:24:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:71876 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >> That makes sense for any package, but not every package should need >> to implement something like it. So it would be cool to extend the >> `message' mechanism in emacs, so that it allows for different >> severities (debug, info, warning?) and assign messages to packages, >> so that I could restrict *Messages* to show only warning messages >> from Gnus... > > I don't really see how that would work. Well, maybe something like (message 'gnus 'debug "Foo bar %s" (bla)) which also puts text properties for the package and importance to the entries in *Messages*. Then some messages-mode could use that to narrow or widen the buffer... > Gnus is pretty unique in that it does a lot of stuff on a single > command. I mean, a *lot*. I don't see how that contradicts my suggestion. Bye, Tassilo