From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 54976@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54976: 29.0.50; Eshell breaks when unknown entries in eshell-modules-list
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:26:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czf4l27n.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmk4vhmpAduN6X2defhE5VMRrsuwY0sAQDQSmE-EyUMAXQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Sun 19 Jun 2022 at 07:57am -07, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> close 54976 29.1
> thanks
>
> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
>
>> Suppose you put this in your init.el:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'eshell-modules-list 'eshell-elecslash)
>>
>> because you want to use the new em-elecslash.el module I'm working on.
>>
>> Then if you try to M-x eshell on an older version of Emacs which lacks
>> em-elecslash, Eshell will fail to initialise at all.
>>
>> It is easy add a guard (when (locate-library ...)) or similar, but this
>> is not possible if you have added eshell-elecslash using the customise
>> interface. In that case, by enabling the module, youq just make your
>> init unusable with older Emacs.
>>
>> It would be better to print a warning, say, rather than error.
>
> I agree that it makes more sense to warn here instead of refusing to
> start. So I have now done that in Emacs 29 (commit d6b4803850).
Many thanks for this!
--
Sean Whitton
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-16 20:50 bug#54976: 29.0.50; Eshell breaks when unknown entries in eshell-modules-list Sean Whitton
2022-06-19 14:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-19 22:26 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
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