From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Daniel MartÃn" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Cc: 58552@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58552: 29.0.50; [PATCH] dictionary-lookup-definition "Wrong type argument" error when there is no word at point
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:53:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1okAd5-0003Kn-Hl@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m14jw4q3p8.fsf@yahoo.es> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
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------- Start of forwarded message -------
From: Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:25:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Signal an error in dictionary lookup if there's no word at
point
* lisp/net/dictionary.el (dictionary-lookup-definition): Signal an
error when there is no word at point.
- ---
lisp/net/dictionary.el | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/net/dictionary.el b/lisp/net/dictionary.el
index 4c52382c67..b8f5018005 100644
- --- a/lisp/net/dictionary.el
+++ b/lisp/net/dictionary.el
@@ -1173,7 +1173,10 @@ dictionary-search
(defun dictionary-lookup-definition ()
"Unconditionally lookup the word at point."
(interactive)
- - (dictionary-new-search (cons (current-word) dictionary-default-dictionary)))
+ (let ((word (current-word)))
+ (unless word
+ (error "No word at point"))
+ (dictionary-new-search (cons word dictionary-default-dictionary))))
(defun dictionary-previous ()
"Go to the previous location in the current buffer."
- --
2.34.1
- --=-=-=--
------- End of forwarded message -------
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2022-10-15 19:36 ` bug#58552: 29.0.50; [PATCH] dictionary-lookup-definition "Wrong type argument" error when there is no word at point Daniel Martín via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-16 9:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-16 20:53 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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