indicating type(level?) of message

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FUJIWARA wrote:
> But indicating type of message(e.g: ERROR, WARNING, and so on) is more
> friendly for novice ones, isn't it ?

personally, I agree.

However I'd rather work on this while looking at all of the output,
section at a time, instead of simply adding markers, as the output
could generally use improvement.

I'll probably wait for Martin or someone else who worked on the help
text cleanup to have some time before I start worrying about it.

The other point of reference I'd make is that Solaris messages include
IDs which people can use to look up additional information. If a
message said
"files over 10MB may cause memory and performance problems"

it could include an identifier (which for mercurial would probably
lead to a wiki page) that can further describe the costs, point to
relevant bugs on the topic, and provide alternative suggestions.

I'm not sure if it makes sense to be a wiki page or just a standalone
help article. wiki's can update even after a product ships, but tend
not to be translated evenly (pro/con).