On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Printing on stdout, and calls to warning() or error() are not >> taken care of in this patch, as that will be done in following >> patches. > >> - if (state->apply_verbosely) >> + if (state->apply_verbosity > verbosity_normal) >> error(_("while searching for:\n%.*s"), >> (int)(old - oldlines), oldlines); > > But this is an error(..) ? Do you mean that it was a bug in the original code to print this error only in verbose mode? > Have you considered to replace all these print functions (error, warning, > fprintf, printf, fprintf_ln) with another custom > > int say_when_at_least(verbosity level, const char *fmt,...) > > ? (I guess that would be more invasive, but the result would be more > consistent.) My opinion is that there is a reason (or there should have been a reason) why people decided to use error() instead of warning() for example. If I use say_when_at_least(verbosity level, const char *fmt,...) like you suggest, how do I decide if error() or warning() is used to actually print the error message? Another parameter to this function (severity level?) is needed. Anyway I don't think such a refactoring is needed.