From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29838: 26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:10:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <837etcj95f.fsf@gnu.org> <058dab08-2e02-4378-b5e7-9d35e2b7d6af@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514146218 6678 195.159.176.226 (24 Dec 2017 20:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29838@debbugs.gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 21:10:14 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 1eTCb6-0001A5-Jv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:10:58 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0008.oracle.com (abhmp0008.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id vBOKAvCv027625; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:10:57 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4627.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=8755 signatures=668650 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=680 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1711220000 definitions=main-1712240278 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:141471 Archived-At: > > If users never saw such messages then perhaps there > > would be no need to describe such things as > > `(args-out-of-range 9 9)'. If they saw only nice > > error messages such as "Args out of range: [1 2 3 4], -1" > > then there would be no such problem. >=20 > Is "Args out of range: 9, 9" any more informative? Of course not. But that's not the corresponding error message, is it? Now that you bring that up, I don't see any good description of the error message itself, either. So yes, that's perhaps the first thing to fix. Ideally the message should be self-explanatory, and should indicate what the range is that the specified args fall outside of.