[Github-comments] [geany] unhelpful error messages (#777)

[J-Dunn]

Geany: a powerful, lightweight code editor for which the user needs an internet connection to access the HTML manual to understand what the error messages don't want to tell you . There is also an iPhone "app" that will help the user find out what error msgs in Geany mean LOL. 

Yes, I could have found it. The point of opening an issue is that I shouldn't need to. 


BTW I found another case of unhelpful errors this a.m. 

I am migrating from one distro to another and changing hardware too. This is meaning some reorganisation and is producing some breakage as permissions and files are not the same as the previous system. This provides testing of some error messages that do not see so well tested. 

I had a Geany project file that I opened from a different location it showed a warning that "one or more files " were not found. ( Or words to that effect ). I looked at status window and found three msgs relating to the three files it did manage to open and NO messages relating to any problems. 

It appears that the status reporting has an optimistic bias. Only success is reported. 

I closed and opened and got no errors, presumably it had dropped the filenames it did not access the first time. Now all is rosy. 

My guess is that it is a couple of library files that I had open in the last session that have now moved.

An argument could be made for not reporting opening a file when  there was not problem, Failing to show any information about the problem when there is a failure and simply flagging "one or more" unspecified problems is totally unhelpful.

There should be entries in the status window reporting each problem. 





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