PR# 11252 Please remove line breaks in error messages

Problem Report Summary
Submitter: peter_gummer
Category: EiffelStudio
Priority: High
Date: 2006/09/11
Class: Feature Request
Severity: Non-critical
Number: 11252
Release: 5.7.63441
Confidential: No
Status: Open
Responsible:
Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Synopsis: Please remove line breaks in error messages

Description
I would like to see a complete overhaul of your error messages to make them more concise, partly so that each error fits on fewer lines.

An easy first step towards this would be to eliminate the useless line breaks in most of the error messages.

For example:

 Error code: VAPE
 Error: some clients have access to routine but not to a feature used in
   its precondition.
 What to do: make sure that all features used in the precondition
   are exported to all the clients to which routine is available.


Why not do this?

 Error code: VAPE
 Error: some clients have access to routine but not to a feature used in its precondition.
 What to do: make sure that all features used in the precondition are exported to all the clients to which routine is available.

If a message line is long, then the horizontal scroll bar allows us to read it. I rarely need to read the error messages in detail anyway; the problem is usually obvious from the first few words and from looking at the line of code. The line breaks are completely useless, and are a constant nuisance.
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