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Re: Interest in xfig


Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Telford Tendys wrote:
> > 
> > I've noticed that in ``scwm'', errors usually fall out onto the console
> > that called scwm which is quite often not visible or even accessible from
> > within X. I haven't looked too closely at other guile projects in this
> > regard, I guess I'll try throwing some errors at gschem and see how it
> > handles it.
> > 
> 
> Scwm also has an error hook that allows you to do arbitrary other processing
> of the error, for example, pop up a message window using Scwm's built in
> message-window facility, or a guile-gtk error dialog when using guile-gtk
> with scwm.

But in Scwm it's a bit tricky since the popping up of a guile-gtk error
dialog could cause another error (even assumming no bugs in Scwm;  any
of the new window hooks could run user scheme code that is buggy).  We
should perhaps extend message windows to permit multiple lines of text.
Errors should get popped up w/ a message window, but we need to also
provide a way to view the last several messages (a la the *Messages*
buffer in GNU Emacs).

Greg

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