From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17482: args-out-of-range when visiting foo.todo Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:22:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zjilzn73.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> <87r43xz4ts.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400037869 30001 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2014 03:24:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 03:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 17482@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 05:24:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPno-0007gV-So for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2014 05:24:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPno-00079W-Bo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPne-00078Z-AI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:24:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPnW-0007Fs-Nh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45447) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPnW-0007Fo-K8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPnW-0006oJ-28 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:24:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 03:24:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17482 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 17482-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17482.140003778326068 (code B ref 17482); Wed, 14 May 2014 03:24:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17482) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 May 2014 03:23:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34564 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPmY-0006mJ-9l for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:37328) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WkPmV-0006lo-Kj for 17482@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:23:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s4E3MuXn017560; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C6286AE173; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:22:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87r43xz4ts.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (Stephen Berman's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 00:33:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4941=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9378 : core <4941> : inlines <864> : streams <1182159> : uri <1756144> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:89056 Archived-At: > Are you saying todo-mode.el should keep using auto-mode-alist in the > standard way? Yes. > If so, then there are basically two cases to handle: > (i) Trying to create a file foo.todo within Emacs but outside of Todo > mode, e.g. with `M-x find-file foo.todo'. It's no problem to make this > raise an error and tell the user to add a new file in Todo mode, as part > of my patch did; is that failing gracefully enough? Why do you need to signal an error? For me the driving design should be that code that doesn't use todo-mode commands should be able to find-file any file with a ".todo" extension, make changes to it via things like delete-region and insert and then save the file. And all this without errors. As soon as the user actually uses a todo-mode command, you can signal any error you like, of course. Stefan