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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Babel] Patch for "Evaluation aborted"
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:30:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aakx1fby.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80lj4jkqio.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> ("Sébastien Vauban"'s message of "Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:41:19 +0100")

Hi Seb,

Nice idea, I've just pushed up a patch which improves this message.

Best -- Eric

Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> Hi Eric and Dan,
>
> I was puzzled this morning by a message "evalution aborted" without any extra
> info. "Aborted" made me think there was an error, so I toggle debug-on-error,
> but it did not give me any more insight on the problem.
>
> After searching for the message in the code base, I found it in =ob.el= and
> understood it was when eval was disabled (set to =no= or =never=).
>
> In this case, I would ask for a clearer message:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/ob.el b/lisp/ob.el
> index 584d627..5bb0d5c 100644
> --- a/lisp/ob.el
> +++ b/lisp/ob.el
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ of potentially harmful code."
>  		 (not (yes-or-no-p
>  		       (format "Evaluate this%scode on your system? "
>  			       (if info (format " %s " (nth 0 info)) " "))))))
> -	(prog1 nil (message "evaluation aborted"))
> +	(prog1 nil (message "Evaluation disabled by user (option)."))
>        t)))
>  
>  ;;;###autoload
>
> Feel free to change it to something better, but, in any case, I'd prefer
> "disabled" over "aborted". At least in my mind, "disabled" is not related to
> "error", while "aborted" is (in my mind, or in my Frenglish).
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-25 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-24  9:41 [Babel] Patch for "Evaluation aborted" Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-25 17:30 ` Eric Schulte [this message]

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