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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29838@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29838: 26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:54:31 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <058dab08-2e02-4378-b5e7-9d35e2b7d6af@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f79a2a43-f804-4551-b486-85782aab7540@default>

I think this is the main point: Users can easily see
(only) a message that shows a sexp, such as
`(args-out-of-range 9 9)', about which they have no
information.

If users never saw such messages then perhaps there
would be no need to describe such things as
`(args-out-of-range 9 9)'.  If they saw only nice
error messages such as "Args out of range: [1 2 3 4], -1"
then there would be no such problem.

If Emacs can be fixed so that users never see such
undescribed and unobvious messages then great.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-24 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-24 17:22 bug#29838: 26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps Drew Adams
2017-12-24 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-24 18:50   ` Drew Adams
2017-12-24 19:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-24 20:05       ` Drew Adams
2022-02-07 10:09       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-12-24 18:54   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-12-24 19:57     ` Andreas Schwab
2017-12-24 20:10       ` Drew Adams
2017-12-25  8:52         ` Andreas Schwab
2017-12-25 16:28           ` Drew Adams

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