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gnus: confusing error message from `gnus-topic-unindent'

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 17677 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17677: gnus: confusing error message from `gnus-topic-unindent'
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:28:08 +0100

Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com> writes:

> When I invoke `gnus-topic-unindent' and it can't see how to unindent the
> topic any further, it says (e.g.) "Nothing to indent Gnus into".  This
> rather confused me about the key handling at first, since (at least for
> the first sub-topic) this is exactly the same message I get for
> `gnus-topic-indent'. (Also for the top-level topic, but I doubt anyone
> would seriously attempt to indent/unindent that?)

I've now changed the error message to:

     (unless grandparent
-      (error "Nothing to indent %s into" topic))
+      (error "Can't unindent %s further" topic))


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