From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29838: 26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:00:09 +0200 Message-ID: <831sjkj6iu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837etcj95f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514141961 801 195.159.176.226 (24 Dec 2017 18:59:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29838@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 19:59:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBUQ-0008AU-5O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:59:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBWO-0001hJ-P5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:01:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBWE-0001fe-RW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBWA-00010P-JQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42250) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBWA-00010A-G2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBWA-0005sO-83 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:01:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29838 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29838-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29838.151414201422522 (code B ref 29838); Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29838) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Dec 2017 19:00:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50931 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBVO-0005rA-Em for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:00:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48401) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBVN-0005qz-A2 for 29838@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBVF-0000CT-U9 for 29838@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:00:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBVF-0000CN-RT; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1772 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eTBVF-0001l6-9K; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 14:00:05 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:50:16 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:141464 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 10:50:16 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 29838@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > Looking at the manual coverage of sequence etc. functions, you find > > > information such as this: > > > (elt [1 2 3 4] -1) > > > error→ Args out of range: [1 2 3 4], -1 > > > But that doesn't help for understanding `(args-out-of-range 9 9)'. > > > > Not sure what you want to explain and how. The number of arguments > > shown by the args-out-of-range error is not fixed (although in many > > cases they are just 2), and their number and meaning are determined by > > the calling application. It's not something fixed that can be > > described to match all the uses. > > Please explain whatever _can_ be explained. Sorry, I don't know how to do that in any useful way. Maybe someone else will have an idea.