On Thu, Jan 11 2001, Ariel Scolnicov wrote:
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> However, I'd much rather *not* have such a menu, and certainly not
> *on* by default. A menu is not particularly useful to me, nor is
> running the file through `less'; I use XEmacs for examining files (and
> I'm sure others have their own preferences). Putting all the files in
> blib_I/errors/ (and adding a reference to that directory in the error
> message) is certainly good enough for me to figure out the problem.
I fully agree with this.
> If we *must* have this menu, I still don't want it on by default.
> Production code should *never* do this sort of thing.
This is a very good point. I think so, too.
> At the very very very very very least, any type of interaction should
> first check the environment variable PL_INLINE_ERROR_INTERACTIVE (I'm
> not particular about the name) is set.
This would be a reasonable possibility to control if the application
should run interactively.
Norbert
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