From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Igor Saprykin <sheleztt@gmail.com>, 43231@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43231: 27.1; hexl-insert-hex-char on an empty file "hexl-current-address: Point is not on a character in the file".
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2020 19:25:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn6yes1i.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tuwbng82.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 06 Sep 2020 17:15:57 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 6. Nothing is written into the buffer and the message buffer says
>> "Point is not on a character file".
[...]
>> The error message could be more helpful, though?
>
> Feel free to suggest a better message.
I see now that the error message isn't really "Point is not on a
character file" (which I found very confusing), but instead "Point is
not on a character in the file", which I think is OK.
So I agree that there's nothing here to fix, and I'm closing this bug
report.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-06 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-05 19:22 bug#43231: 27.1; hexl-insert-hex-char on an empty file "hexl-current-address: Point is not on a character in the file" Igor Saprykin
2020-09-06 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 14:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-06 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 22:10 ` Unknown
2020-09-08 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 15:29 ` Unknown
2020-09-06 17:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-09-06 20:55 ` Igor Saprykin
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