From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37540: [PATCH] Wishlist: Allow edebug-specs to signal arbitrary error strings on syntax errors in macros. Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:57:03 +0000 Message-ID: <20200116205703.GA19757@ACM> References: <20190928123034.GA9181@ACM> <83o8z4h6zs.fsf@gnu.org> <87h80vwj8v.fsf@marxist.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="105979"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: 37540@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 21:58:16 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1isCDX-000RW8-WB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:58:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48278 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1isCDX-0004yH-1B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1isCDM-0004q2-KB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:58:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1isCDJ-0000R8-TK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:58:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1isCDJ-0000Qq-Pp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1isCDJ-00081q-Od for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:58:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:58:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37540 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 37540-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37540.157920823530810 (code B ref 37540); Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:58:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37540) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Jan 2020 20:57:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38429 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1isCCW-00080q-QP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:57:15 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:52538 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1isCCR-00080b-Dl for 37540@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 95761 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Jan 2020 20:57:05 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4FE15B48.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.91.72]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 21:57:03 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 19816 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jan 2020 20:57:03 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h80vwj8v.fsf@marxist.se> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:174742 Archived-At: Hello, Stefan. On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 15:47:44 +0100, Stefan Kangas wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:30:34 +0000 > >> From: Alan Mackenzie > >> The following patch implements an &error mechanism in edebug.el, and > >> illustrates its use in the case which motivated it. > >> Any objections to committing this patch (together with the needed > >> amendments to documentation and NEWS)? > > Please wait with such changes until the emacs-27 branch is cut (which > > should happen soon, I hope). I don't want to risk destabilizing Emacs > > 27 with potentially risky low-level changes, more than it already is. > Now that the emacs-27 branch is cut, perhaps it is time to look into > this again? Indeed, I posted a post on this bug just on Tuesday. It has not yet attracted much feedback. I suppose it is a particularly arcane topic, but such an &error feature would enable me to tidy up the edebug-spec for backquote properly. > Best regards, > Stefan Kangas -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).