From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T09:14:56+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: quality of error messages"
>     on Fri, 8 Oct 2004 05:28:55 +0900, Brian Schr�der <ruby@brian-schroeder.de> writes:
> 
> |> % ./script.rb
> |> script.rb:6: warning: inconsistent indentation level. 
> |> script.rb:13: parse error
> |> 
> |> This should make it easy to find such errors.
> 
> |That seems like a nice idea to me. This would be nearly the same as the 
> |autoindenter so, only that it does not indent but spit out warnings.
> 
> I'm afraid that it might cause tab-space indentation war like in the
> Python community.  The issue is much smaller though, since it is not
> mandatory.
> 
> 							matz.
> 
Therefore I like the idea of using a high warning level or a seperate 
program for this task. By now I normally
  - mark everything
  - M-x indent-region
  - Look where something is weird.

If a program could guide where I look that would be nice. Therefore also 
an external program or an xemacs plugin would be nice to me.

And just to clarify: This is in no way urgent or very important to me, I 
just liked the idea ;)

Regards,

Brian
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Brian Schr�der
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