From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30697: make eval-expression only take `read'-able Lisp Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 14:36:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <182ce144-2313-4cf9-9978-f9d6d570b4dd@default> References: <> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520202974 15981 195.159.176.226 (4 Mar 2018 22:36:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 22:36:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "Charles A. 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Currently, > we just error out, so the user has to restart the command and go back > in the history to get back what he typed. I don't see why this is better than what happens now. We currently have `eval-expression-debug-on-error', which helps you understand the read or eval error. And the function is not necessarily called interactively ("When called interactively..."). What problem is the proposed change trying to solve?