From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Exception Handling in LISP. Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:10:36 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84r87qmzvn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <195F58F118C9D311B622009027DC812F017C1328@mail1.technology.serco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051280352 8857 80.91.224.249 (25 Apr 2003 14:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 25 16:19:08 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 19942e-0002I4-00 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:19:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 199407-0006EO-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:16:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951fc5b.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fc5b.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.252.91) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051279978 8681914 217.81.252.91 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZXn+M0ecfdmeidudP/dRvaNLWRM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112317 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:8815 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8815 Gurucharan writes: > Can we catch any unknown exception in Lisp like C++ ? Emacs Lisp has throw/catch and signal/condition-case. I guess signal/condition-case is more like what you want, since errors are a special kind of signal. Both provide ways to just `catch everything'. -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)