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| author | Pol Van Aubel <dev@polvanaubel.com> | 2019-10-28 20:58:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com> | 2019-11-02 16:24:41 +0000 |
| commit | ed78f926c3495b0c89ccaf103dcc4be50be6395f (patch) | |
| tree | 8bd248149aee619f9be3a3898fbf7ea2885bd217 /alot/commands/globals.py | |
| parent | 244180d52f4ace8181bb288e77402c766ad620c1 (diff) | |
Be more informative if editor exits with error.
Implements the suggestion in #1427 to display the actual error code, and
substitutes an empty stderr with "No stderr output".
Diffstat (limited to 'alot/commands/globals.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | alot/commands/globals.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/alot/commands/globals.py b/alot/commands/globals.py index c61015f9..05ab6427 100644 --- a/alot/commands/globals.py +++ b/alot/commands/globals.py @@ -304,7 +304,10 @@ class ExternalCommand(Command): if self.on_success is not None: self.on_success() else: - ui.notify(ret, priority='error') + msg = "editor has exited with error code {} -- {}".format( + proc.returncode, + ret or "No stderr output") + ui.notify(msg, priority='error') if self.refocus and callerbuffer in ui.buffers: logging.info('refocussing') ui.buffer_focus(callerbuffer) |