[wp-hackers] button patch for comment post section

[Austin Matzko]

On 3/8/06, Danny Dawson <danny at quasistoic.org> wrote:
> What exactly happened to this train of thought? Is there any
> development going on with user-friendly error handling, or is this a
> back-burner idea?
>
> Just trying not to invent the wheel twice.
>
> Thanks,
> -Danny
>
> On 10/7/05, Austin Matzko <ajmatzko at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >From: Owen Winkler <ringmaster at midnightcircus.com>
> > >Add a new function comment_error_message().
> >
> > Why not just fire off something like do_action('comment_error','noauthor')
> > at the point in wp-comments-post.php where now it dies with an error
> > message?  The default action could just be what it does now, for backwards
> > compatibility, but theme designers and plugin authors could remove that and
> > add their own.

I submitted this ticket, which apparently was queued for commit for "2.1."
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1786

I'd be interested in replacing "die" calls through WP with similar hooks.