[neomutt-users] display of errors

[Sven Guckes]

how about a slightly different output of errors?
in particular, showing error numbers and erroneous lines.

this is what i just got:

  Unknown Mailbox: /home/user/guckes/Mail.IN/KALENDERBLATT
  Error in /home/user/guckes/.mutt/NEW, line 4637:
  Error in /home/user/guckes/.mutt/personal, line 232: source: file /home/user/guckes/.mutt/NEW could not be sourced
  Error in /home/user/guckes/.mutt/muttrc.forall, line 1435: source: file /home/user/guckes/.mutt/personal could not be sourced
  Error in /home/user/guckes/.muttrc, line 87: source: file /home/user/guckes/.mutt/muttrc.forall could not be sourced
  Error in /home/user/guckes/.neomuttrc, line 27: source: file /home/user/guckes/.muttrc could not be sourced
  source: errors in /home/user/guckes/.neomuttrc

it would be easier to read the cascade if the line numbers came first:

  Unknown Mailbox: /home/user/guckes/Mail.IN/KALENDERBLATT
  Error in line 4637: /home/user/guckes/.mutt/NEW
  Error in line  232: source: file /home/user/guckes/.mutt/NEW could not be sourced /home/user/guckes/.mutt/personal
  Error in line 1435: source: file /home/user/guckes/.mutt/personal could not be sourced /home/user/guckes/.mutt/muttrc.forall
  Error in line   87: source: file /home/user/guckes/.mutt/muttrc.forall could not be sourced /home/user/guckes/.muttrc
  Error in line   27: source: file /home/user/guckes/.muttrc could not be sourced /home/user/guckes/.neomuttrc
  source: errors in /home/user/guckes/.neomuttrc

of course, "Error in (line)" and "file" might be redundant.
and the home path might be abbreviated to '~':

and maybe add an error number up front (for the lookups):

  Unknown Mailbox: ~/Mail.IN/KALENDERBLATT
  E4711 4637: ~/.mutt/NEW
  E0815  232: source: ~/.mutt/NEW <- ~/.mutt/personal
  E0815 1435: source: ~/.mutt/personal <- ~/.mutt/muttrc.forall
  E0815   87: source: ~/.mutt/muttrc.forall <- ~/.muttrc
  E0815   27: source: ~/.muttrc <- ~/.neomuttrc
  E0815 source: errors in ~/.neomuttrc

is there an option to request the output of those lines as well?

Sven
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