From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: moasenwood@zoho.eu
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) (end-of-buffer)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:44:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-04329ecb-8db3-452c-8235-15df317452cb-1608788687389@3c-app-mailcom-bs08> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dp77oo8.fsf@zoho.eu>
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 11:04 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) (end-of-buffer)
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > Have the point moving to the top of the buffer should not
> > really be considered an error. I agree that nil is not
> > a very good choice. too
>
> Well, Emacs is from 1976. People were thinking of it like
> programmers. That's actually part of the appeal, even now.
Seems everything got started the same way. From a fuckup. :)
> In the user experience sense, it isn't an error, no.
> People aren't computers, thanks heaven.
Wouldn't that make it even worse? :)
> But luckily, this computer/programmer/user discrepancy, which
> is unavoidable if one wants to have a common interface, this
> particular situation is very easy to solve ... even/especially
> with programming!
>
> And the solution spells ... *drumroll* ...
>
> debug-ignored-errors !
I really needed to think there.
> --
> underground experts united
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-24 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-23 16:55 Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) (end-of-buffer) Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-23 17:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-23 17:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 17:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-23 17:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 17:18 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-23 17:35 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 17:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-23 17:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 18:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 18:52 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-23 18:59 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 19:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-24 4:55 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 5:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-24 5:39 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 6:31 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-24 6:48 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 8:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-24 8:23 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 11:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-24 11:28 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 11:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 12:43 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-24 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-25 4:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-24 4:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-24 4:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-24 5:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-12-24 5:44 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-12-24 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
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