From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: X error handler
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:16:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r75npifr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FDs5L-0005TV-QA@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:47:23 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It seems to me cleaner to make the protocol error handler do nothing
> by default (rather than kill Emacs). When x_catch_errors is on, we
> can carry out the current behavior, i.e., storing the error string
> etc.
>
> This might be a good idea, but I tend to think there must have been
> some reason for writing the code originally not to do so.
>
> Can anyone think of a drawback for this?
>
> One possible drawback is that bugs get ignored rather than fixed.
> But I am not sure that really matters.
We can always make the default error handler print to stderr when
ENABLE_CHECKING is on.
But since this seems like a non-trivial change, and doesn't fix any
bug, I guess we can put it off till after the release.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-27 2:59 X error handler Chong Yidong
2006-02-27 23:47 ` Richard Stallman
2006-02-28 16:16 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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