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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch>, 30697@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30697: make eval-expression only take `read'-able Lisp
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 14:36:57 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <182ce144-2313-4cf9-9978-f9d6d570b4dd@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<m27eqriyat.fsf@aurox.ch>>

> Here is a change to make eval-expression issue a warning in the
> minibuffer when the user enters an unreadable expression.  Currently,
> we just error out, so the user has to restart the command and go back
> in the history to get back what he typed.

I don't see why this is better than what happens now.

We currently have `eval-expression-debug-on-error', which helps
you understand the read or eval error.  And the function is not
necessarily called interactively ("When called interactively...").

What problem is the proposed change trying to solve?





       reply	other threads:[~2018-03-04 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<m27eqriyat.fsf@aurox.ch>
2018-03-04 22:36 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-03-05 19:09   ` bug#30697: make eval-expression only take `read'-able Lisp Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-04 16:46 Charles A. Roelli
2018-03-04 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 18:52   ` Charles A. Roelli
2019-06-24 18:58   ` bug#30697: make eval-expression only take `read'-able Lisp, " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:17     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:20       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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