From: Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong type error in local variables
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 01:13:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd69b7d3-87c1-457c-e251-b50f25ef0b5c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8oxntvw.fsf@ebih.ebihd>
On 7/2/20 11:45 PM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
editor wrote:
> Douglas Lewan wrote:
>
>> you should be verifying that the
>> (find-file-noselect) succeeded.
> BTW, how do you verify that?
>
> (when (find-file-noselect "~/.emacs") t) ; t
>
> but also
>
> (when (find-file-noselect "~/there-is-no-file") t) ; t
Good question. Maybe it can't fail. I've certainly worked in other
worlds where such cases exist. I imagine that (find-file-noselect nil)
would not behave well, but in that situation you probably should have
caught the nil first.
--
,Doug
d.lewan2000@gmail.com
(908) 720 7908
If this is what winning looks like, I'd hate to see what losing is.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-02 14:46 wrong type error in local variables Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 15:06 ` Joost Kremers
2020-07-02 15:59 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-02 16:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-02 17:09 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 17:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-02 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-03 1:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 1:40 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-03 2:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 2:24 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-03 3:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 5:13 ` Douglas Lewan [this message]
2020-07-03 6:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-02 17:04 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 17:15 ` Douglas Lewan
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2020-07-03 8:33 Anders Munch
2020-07-03 10:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 14:07 ` Douglas Lewan
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