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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
>
>
>



  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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