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#18764: 24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 06:48:26 +0300 Message-ID: <83vaaixed1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a94te85b.fsf@gnu.org> <8736xowzes.fsf@gmail.com> <83tvq3ynmv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0wqvo4d.fsf@gmail.com> <83muvuzsc8.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgbetjdy.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529207229 20008 195.159.176.226 (17 Jun 2018 03:47:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 03:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18764@debbugs.gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 05:47:04 2018 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 1fUOee-00052x-2P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 05:47:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53677 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgl-0000Rf-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgc-0000RX-QX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:49:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgX-0005ZG-UU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgX-0005Z7-Pw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgX-0006GA-Hi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:49:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 03:49:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18764 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: confirmed Original-Received: via spool by 18764-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18764.152920732624041 (code B ref 18764); Sun, 17 Jun 2018 03:49:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18764) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jun 2018 03:48:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52430 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgI-0006Fh-1i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51848) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOgG-0006FU-3Z for 18764@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOg6-0005LQ-5S for 18764@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOg6-0005LC-1Q; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4697 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fUOg4-00055n-SE; Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:48:33 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lgbetjdy.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Noam Postavsky on Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:13:29 -0400) 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:147556 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Cc: 18764@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:13:29 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Then let me rephrase: why are we signaling an error instead of > > silently doing nothing? IOW, if something cannot be indented, let's > > leave it unindented. Does that make sense? > > So just suppress the errors? Yes. > Worries me a bit that some future problems could be harder to find > because of that. I submit that any errors in code that tries to indent should be suppressed, as they are not relevant to what the user wanted. If those errors are important in other contexts, they will pop up there, and can then decide what to do with them. Thanks.