Unify error messages that suggest enabling extensions

The error messages that suggest to enable some extension currently have a lot of slightly different forms: Here are just a few examples (I’ll do a longer search if there is a consensus to move forward with this ticket)

• Did you mean to enable _?
• Did you mean to use _?
• Perhaps you meant to use _?
• Perhaps you intended to use _?

These error messages are parsed by haskell-mode (and maybe other tooling as well) which is quite hard since they have so many different forms.

I propose to change all of those to “Did you mean to enable _?” since that I prefer enable over use here, but I don’t have any strong feelings towards the exact message as long as it’s consistent. So if the majority prefers something else I’m fine with that.

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I'm all for it! Let's not just use the same string, but rather put the string into a function and call that.

I don't feel strongly about wording -- ask users. My instinct is "Perhaps you meant to use _".

Simon

Replying to [ticket:11971#comment:119515 simonpj]:

Let's not just use the same string, but rather put the string into a function and call that.

That’s what I was planning to do.

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