GNU bug report logs - #909
not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 11:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #21 received at 909 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 909 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#909: not finding etc/charsets/ should give some error/warning
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:37:05 +0200

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
>> How about saying something like "Emacs will not function correctly in
>> this condition", or something of the sort, to emphasize that the
>> situation is quite bad?
>
> Should it cause an abort?

It's an external condition that Emacs has no control over (it could be a
temporary NFS problem, for example).  Just aborting does not give any
clue what is wrong.

Andreas.

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