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28.0.50; warning suppression buttons truncate warnings

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From: No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; warning suppression buttons truncate warnings
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:51:09 -0500

The warning suppression buttons introduced in 
66d01012ba61a364fe92cdc1728bfa135a90626a truncate warning 
messages.
I have offered a trivial patch in the past to have an option to 
disable these buttons:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2020-09/msg01405.html

Lars did not see it as a valid use case. His argument 
(summarized):

> since you get the warnings so seldom, it makes sense
> to have the very few you see come with ready-made ways of making 
> them go
> away, and then you're back to no warnings again.

Initially I thought the idea of the buttons was useful, but after 
thinking on it more
I agree with the case against these buttons Jonas Bernoulli made 
here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-11/msg00768.html

I would add to that, the fact that the buttons truncate the 
warning messages makes it impossible for a user to make an 
informed decision on whether or not they should be suppressing the 
warning. The truncated messages are equally useless to me as a 
developer. Here's an image someone sent me of the warnings on 
their system:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2872862/105290265-42526580-5bb0-11eb-962d-b56f71b6efc0.png

While I politely encouraged them to send text in the future for 
such output,
here's what I would've received:

Warning (comp): Debugger entered--Lisp error: 
(native-compiler-error-empty-byte 
"/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/straight/straight-au..." 
"/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/straight/straight-au...\
") Disable showing Disable logging
Warning (comp): Debugger entered--Lisp error: 
(native-compiler-error-empty-byte 
"/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/bind-key/bind-key-au..." 
"/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/bind-key/bind-key-au...\
") Disable showing Disable logging
Warning (comp): Debugger entered--Lisp error: 
(native-compiler-error-empty-byte 
"/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/use-package/use-pack..." 
"/root/.emacs.d/straight/build/use-package/use-pack...\
") Disable showing Disable logging

It's only by luck I can see enough of the file path to know which 
files are throwing the errors.

Is there a way to work around this (absent my patch)?

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