From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Minibuffer and Dabbrev problems Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:30:31 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EF0F617.2070305@yahoo.com> References: <848ys67985.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84r85ufpos.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <3EEF5269.1060909@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055979215 18984 80.91.224.249 (18 Jun 2003 23:33:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 19 01:33:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19SmQm-0004w1-00 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:33:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19SmOk-0000uJ-7D for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:31:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055978995 23218471 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114570 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11062 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11062 K T Ligesh wrote: > You mean, you cannot 'return' from a function without generating an > error message? Elisp doesn't have a straight 'return' statement? Yes. But the Common Lisp emulaton library has both `return' and `return-from'. Just add this to your .emacs file: (require 'cl) > Actually coming from the vim world, all these error messages are sort > of strange. For a person used to just a beep, after some time, these > messages can get into your head. See http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/poor-mans-vi-mode.html > There should be some option for advanced users to turn off -all- > error messages; they do cause certain discomfort. But I guess, that > is not trivially possible. I will just have to rewrite those > functions without those error messages... That will mean a lot of > rewrite though.... Why don't you just rewrite/advise the `error' and/or `signal' function? (See the "Signalling Errors" node of the Emacs Lisp manual.) -- Kevin Rodgers