From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 39865@debbugs.gnu.org, viniciusjl@gmail.com
Subject: bug#39865: 28.0.50; Emacs crash
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:52:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tv2w9sa3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2o8t4cmg7.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:29:44 +0100)
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl@gmail.com>,
> 39865@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:29:44 +0100
>
> >> I think that emacs should be more robust about this and do not crash for any bad value.
>
> Eli> I agree. It is not a bad value, we just couldn't yet find a way of
> Eli> switching the font-backend.
>
> Eli, would you accept a patch for emacs-27 that signals a user-error
> if trying to set a font-backend thatʼs not supported by the running
> emacs? Or that ignores it (with a message)?
In general, yes; but I'd need to see the patch.
AFAIU, the problem in this case wasn't that the backend wasn't
supported, it was that it was changed in the middle of a session.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-10 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-02 1:39 bug#39865: 28.0.50; Emacs crash Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-02 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-05 1:03 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-05 22:21 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-06 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-06 17:20 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-06 17:24 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-06 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-10 14:29 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-10 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-10 14:54 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-10 15:20 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-10 19:03 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-11 7:33 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-11 20:45 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-12 9:39 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-10 15:15 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-11 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-12 9:33 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-12 10:25 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-13 0:44 ` Vinicius José Latorre
2020-03-13 9:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-13 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-13 15:09 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-17 10:16 ` Robert Pluim
2020-03-17 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-17 16:06 ` Robert Pluim
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