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

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From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf <at> adamkovic.org>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>, Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>, rms <at> gnu.org, 61413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#61413: [PATCH] Make warnings show a "warning" emoji instead of a stop-sign
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:08 +0100

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Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:

> * A caveat for terminals:
>
> As Eli mentions, icons.el already knows to fall back to a suitable
> representation on TTYs.  In practice though, the Linux TTY can display a
> few non-ASCII characters; as a result, here (6.13 if that matters) Emacs
> falls back to warnings-suppress's _symbol_ representation…
>
>   (symbol ,(if (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
>                     (null window-system))
>                " » "
>              " ■ "))    ; 👈 that one
>
> … which one could bikeshed too, if one were so inclined 🫣

Over at bug#60854, I note that Robert mentioned:

> Whilst youʼre changing stuff, the text should not be "stop", it should
> be "suppress" or "ignore" or something.

Referring to the current 'text presentation.

In light of all this, how do we feel about the attached patch?  (FTR,
"×" displays fine in a Linux TTY here; I do not have a Windows console
handy however so that patch might go overboard)

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