From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jorge <jorge13515@gmail.com>
Cc: 19903@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19903: 24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"'
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:03:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oaoolx24.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJR3Qnf1Sf+2K2RUb8JsJZzuYE3qzt9g-gr1icPLbZQpEkF7=A@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:51:54 -0200
> From: Jorge <jorge13515@gmail.com>
> Cc: 19903-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > That's a cockpit error: the marked line should have said
> >
> > (facemenu-set-face 'bold 1 2)
> >
> > instead. Then this script will work and do what you expect.
> Thank you very much for the clarification. I just corrected my code.
> However, it seems to me that the current behavior is not
> user-friendly. (facemenu-set-face "bold" 1 2) _does_ make the text
> bold, without any warning - which makes it appear that the call was
> successful - but then we get an error when we try to save the buffer.
> Generally, it is best for errors to be detected as close to their
> source as possible. What do you think?
facemenu-set-face calls several other functions, some of which accept
face names, some don't.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-20 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-19 17:15 bug#19903: 24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"' Jorge
2015-02-19 18:48 ` bug#19903: 24.4; wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 8:27 ` bug#19903: 24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"' Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 8:51 ` Jorge
2015-02-20 9:12 ` bug#19903: 24.4; wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-20 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20 18:56 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-20 21:09 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-21 11:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-21 11:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-25 6:20 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-25 17:10 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-25 17:55 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-21 12:12 ` bug#19912: facemenu-add-face: does not handle 'face being set to a property list Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 7:05 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-25 17:24 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-26 18:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-20 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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