* read-file-name error-handling problem
@ 2002-08-10 17:40 Noah Friedman
2002-08-12 17:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 17:47 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Noah Friedman @ 2002-08-10 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Speaking of read-file-name calling conventions, I'm running into a case
where errors from read-file-name are not caught by condition-case even when
they should be. I believe that the code snippet below should print a
message in the echo area instead of going into the debugger.
This happens building from the cvs trunk as of last night, but I first
noticed it a few weeks ago but was too busy to produce a smaller test case.
This test case attempts to call read-file-name in an xemacs-compatible
fashion but trap errors from that, and is failing. (I first ran into this
problem with VM.)
To demonstrate the bug, load this file and run M-x foo, then type some
partial file name in your current working directory and then try to
complete it, e.g. I have a directory called "bin" in my home directory, and
if I type M-x b<TAB>, I get thrown into the elisp debugger. The backtrace
is attached below.
No fix yet, but I thought I'd report it in the meantime in case someone
else immediately recognizes the problem.
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(setq debug-on-error t)
(defun foo ()
(interactive)
(let ((foo-history '("~/foo")))
(condition-case err
(read-file-name "Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil foo-history)
(error
(message "caught error: %s" err)))))
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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function ("~/foo"))
("~/foo")("~/bin/")
read-file-name-internal("~/bin/" "~/" lambda)
minibuffer-complete()
* call-interactively(minibuffer-complete)
read-file-name("Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil ("~/foo"))
(condition-case err (read-file-name "Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil foo-history) (error (message "caught error: %s" err)))
(let ((foo-history ...)) (condition-case err (read-file-name "Foo: " "~/" nil nil nil foo-history) (error ...)))
foo()
* call-interactively(foo)
execute-extended-command(nil)
* call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
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