From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29838: 26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:03:24 +0200 Message-ID: <837etcj95f.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514138537 26564 195.159.176.226 (24 Dec 2017 18:02:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:02:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29838@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 19:02:13 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAbE-0006Kn-Lh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 19:02:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33114 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAdB-0002q1-O9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAd3-0002pG-FH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:04:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAd0-0005OT-Cj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42203) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAd0-0005OC-9Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAd0-0004U3-03 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:04:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:04:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29838 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29838-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29838.151413861017194 (code B ref 29838); Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:04:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29838) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Dec 2017 18:03:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50884 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAcU-0004TG-DB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33320) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAcS-0004T1-Ay for 29838@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:03:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAcK-0004u9-1s for 29838@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAcJ-0004u3-VL; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:03:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1661 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eTAcJ-0006fw-E9; Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:03:19 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:22:30 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141456 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:22:30 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > > Node `Standard Errors' says only this: > > ‘args-out-of-range’ > The message is ‘Args out of range’. This happens when trying to > access an element beyond the range of a sequence, buffer, or other > container-like object. *Note Sequences Arrays Vectors::, and *Note > Text::. > > Looking at the manual coverage of sequence etc. functions, you find > information such as this: > > (elt [1 2 3 4] -1) > error→ Args out of range: [1 2 3 4], -1 > > But that doesn't help for understanding `(args-out-of-range 9 9)'. Not sure what you want to explain and how. The number of arguments shown by the args-out-of-range error is not fixed (although in many cases they are just 2), and their number and meaning are determined by the calling application. It's not something fixed that can be described to match all the uses.