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[PATCH] Make warnings show a "warning" emoji instead of a stop-sign

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 61413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61413: [PATCH] Make warnings show a "warning" emoji instead of a stop-sign
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:52:40 -0800

Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> Stop-sign emoji is confusing in context of warnings, because it
> typically has red color, and looks like there was some error. Let's use
> instead a "warning" emoji, which is typically shown in yellow color and
> doesn't look as if immediate attention is needed.
>
> * lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el (warnings-suppress): replace stop-sign emoji
> with a warning emoji.
> ---
>  lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el
> index 31b840d6c83..3f18ed89808 100644
> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el
> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el
> @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ warning-suppress-p
>      some-match))
>  
>  (define-icon warnings-suppress button
> -  `((emoji "⛔")
> +  `((emoji "⚠️")
>      ;; Many MS-Windows console fonts don't have good glyphs for U+25A0.
>      (symbol ,(if (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
>                        (null window-system))

This definitely risks going deep into bikeshedding territory, but in my
view, the Unicode code point "WARNING SIGN" is clearly the better
choice, as it directly conveys a warning.

The Unicode code point "NO ENTRY", meanwhile, is just completely
incomprehensible.  No entry to what?

Can we install this?

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