From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: "Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Bug(?) in builtin r
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:27:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807271727.m6RHRBsx003356@pws-pc.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Richard Hartmann" <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> of "Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:05:31 +0200." <2d460de70807270205m5d431b71h2d8c7e9095781be8@mail.gmail.com>
"Richard Hartmann" wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:52, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
>
> > + zwarnnam("fc", "invalid use of current history line");
>
> In my personal crusade for errors/warnings that pinpoint the
> issue without the need to refer to documentation, I would
> like to suggest a replacement/an addition along the lines
> of 'using the current command from the history stack
> leads to endless recursion'.
We need an error message, not an essay, which is what the documentation
is for, but if there's a more specific short message I can use that,
such as for example "current history line would cause recursion".
-
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 14:52 Richard Hartmann
2008-07-24 16:36 ` thomasg
2008-07-24 17:16 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-07-25 8:52 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-07-27 9:05 ` Richard Hartmann
2008-07-27 17:27 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-07-27 17:41 ` Richard Hartmann
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