From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: wrong type error in local variables
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:05:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0zlnng1.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bd69b7d3-87c1-457c-e251-b50f25ef0b5c@gmail.com
Douglas Lewan wrote:
>>> you should be verifying that the
>>> (find-file-noselect) succeeded.
>>
>> BTW, how do you verify that?
>>
>> (when (find-file-noselect "~/.emacs") t) ; t
>>
>> but also
>>
>> (when (find-file-noselect "~/there-is-no-file") t) ; t
>
> Good question. Maybe it can't fail. I've certainly
> worked in other worlds where such cases exist.
> I imagine that (find-file-noselect nil) would not
> behave well
find-file-noselect: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-03 6:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-02 14:46 wrong type error in local variables Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 15:06 ` Joost Kremers
2020-07-02 15:59 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-02 16:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-02 17:09 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 17:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-02 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-03 1:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 1:40 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-03 2:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 2:24 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-03 3:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 5:13 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-03 6:05 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-07-02 17:04 ` Douglas Lewan
2020-07-02 17:15 ` Douglas Lewan
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2020-07-03 8:33 Anders Munch
2020-07-03 10:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-07-03 14:07 ` Douglas Lewan
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