[TxMt] Re: Feature request: add scrollbar in "Failure running" menu

mail at bibiko.de mail at bibiko.de
Tue Aug 21 07:39:43 UTC 2018


Hi Allan,

> On 21. Aug 2018, at 09:07, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
> 
> On 19 Jul 2018, at 8:43, Louis Abraham wrote:
> 
> It would be great to be able to see the full traceback when a command fails!
> 
> I looked into this, but it’s a bit complicated because currently TextMate uses the system’s error reporting (via NSError) so the dialog is a system dialog presented with presentError: which does not allow to augment it, other than add additional buttons.
> 
> So one could add a “Show Error Log” button, but that does feel a bit clumsy.

I see.

> I do wonder though in what context you need to read the full stack dump?

For me I also bump into this issue if I run an erroneous Python script with a long error traceback.

Maybe an option would be to be able to just copy the entire output of that window(?) 

Cheers, Hans


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