From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.50; savehist save invalid syntax Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40722.128.165.123.18.1189542465.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> References: Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189542517 27468 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2007 20:28:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, sdl.web@gmail.com, Drew Adams , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 22:28:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IVCLV-0007J7-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:28:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCLV-0000b5-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCL6-0000O0-7Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCL1-0000MF-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IVCL1-0000MA-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVCL0-0004nW-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVCKc-0000YI-6W for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVCKx-0004n8-KZ for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailwasher.lanl.gov ([192.65.95.54] helo=mailwasher-b.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IVCKu-0004lu-3S; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailrelay3.lanl.gov (mailrelay3.lanl.gov [128.165.4.104]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.6/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8BKRnSB001569; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:27:49 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay3.lanl.gov (8.13.8/8.13.8/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id l8BKRjLw025712; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:27:45 -0600 Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l8BKRjaE007666; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:27:45 -0600 Original-Received: (from apache@localhost) by webmail1.lanl.gov (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l8BKRjGB007664; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:27:45 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: webmail1.lanl.gov: apache set sender to herring@lanl.gov using -f Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:27:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-6.el3.2lanl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-CTN-5-MailScanner-Information: Please see http://network.lanl.gov/email/virus-scan.php X-CTN-5-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CTN-5-MailScanner-From: herring@lanl.gov X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78587 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:19846 Archived-At: > I looked a bit closer at the rest as well, and I think that > `savehist-prin1-readable' needs to actually read what it prints (like > it did > before Davis's patch). It should raise an error (hence remove the > written > entry and return nil) if either the write or the read fails. > > Why is this necessary, if `prin1' signals an error when printing anything > unreadable? It's not; it was a misunderstanding, and is already corrected. Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.