From ed78f926c3495b0c89ccaf103dcc4be50be6395f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pol Van Aubel <dev@polvanaubel.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:58:49 +0100
Subject: 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".
---
 alot/commands/globals.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'alot/commands/globals.py')

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)
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