From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: X error handler Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871wxpmrqx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141265766 19281 80.91.229.2 (2 Mar 2006 02:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 02:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 03:16:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEdMJ-00070t-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:16:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEdMI-0001ka-Jm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FEJ4P-0004t4-0K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:36:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FEJ4G-0004rf-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FEAmS-0006rJ-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FDs6H-0007pI-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:48:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FDs5L-0005TV-QA; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:47:23 -0500 Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <871wxpmrqx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:59:18 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51045 Archived-At: It seems to me cleaner to make the protocol error handler do nothing by default (rather than kill Emacs). When x_catch_errors is on, we can carry out the current behavior, i.e., storing the error string etc. This might be a good idea, but I tend to think there must have been some reason for writing the code originally not to do so. Can anyone think of a drawback for this? One possible drawback is that bugs get ignored rather than fixed. But I am not sure that really matters.