From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11890: 24.1; (wrong-type-argument processp nil) in `shell-mode' Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6ddddf95-9be9-420d-bb07-09a51e7ddfd1@default> References: <07B28F5ABD0546EC8A39BD037E08FB76@us.oracle.com> <87fuu5afz4.fsf@gnus.org> <42210bb6-aac5-4853-8813-51e689996892@default> <87shy590fl.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461860295 8813 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2016 16:18:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , 11890@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 28 18:18:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1avodc-0001VL-GM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:16:14 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u3SGGDCN017333; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:16:13 GMT In-Reply-To: <87shy590fl.fsf@gnus.org> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] 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: 208.118.235.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:117087 Archived-At: > > The command should not just barf with a wrong-type error msg. > > As the bug report says: > > > > Clearly, this code in shell.el is not tolerant of there being no > > process: > > > > (file-name-nondirectory > > (car (process-command (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))))) > > > > I imagine that it should be, or rather that it should perhaps raise a= n > > error with a more suitable message. >=20 > There are many functions that may fail if called with invalid parameters > or in invalid buffers. Emacs does not attempt to cover them all with > user-level error messages. >=20 > If you don't have a recipe here, I don't see what how to proceed > further, and I'm closing this bug report. How to proceed is to make the `shell-mode' code ensure that if there is no process then it raises an error saying that there is no process. The low-level error is the wrong error.