From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: threads and kill-buffer Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:32:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87a9x55xvd.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83d321dvsr.fsf@gnu.org> <87d320qqkp.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83sjawckww.fsf@gnu.org> <83mx13d8q1.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346934747 9555 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2012 12:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 12:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 14:32:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1T9bFy-0002kM-CV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:32:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35630 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9bFv-0000ny-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:32:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9bFn-0000nU-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9bFh-0007Sg-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:32:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:24710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T9bFb-0007QB-53; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:32:03 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FpYew/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIWAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kLodzugmQRAOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="197691381" Original-Received: from 69-165-135-176.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.135.176]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 06 Sep 2012 08:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E651C588E8; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:32:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mx13d8q1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:24:38 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153103 Archived-At: >> >> I suppose we may also want a new predicate to detect this state. >> > At least internally, yes. Not sure we should expose that to Lisp. >> Can someone explain to me why don't want to make kill-buffer signal >> an error? > Because, if we find a solution that doesn't signal an error, it will > be better: existing code will still work. I wonder/doubt if there is any existing working code which would be affected. Stefan