From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 20625@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20625: 25.0.50; doc of `define-error` is incorrect
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 14:04:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9eb3f53-8dec-4157-8a96-7634274687ac@default> (raw)
From `C-h f':
(define-error NAME MESSAGE &optional PARENT)
Define NAME as a new error signal.
MESSAGE is a string that will be output to the echo area if such an error
is signaled without being caught by a `condition-case'.
PARENT is either a signal or a list of signals from which it inherits.
Defaults to `error'.
No, MESSAGE is not necessarily a string. It is a required argument, but
the code explicitly makes use of the case where it is nil. And existing
code delivered with Emacs (e.g. bookmark.el) makes use of a nil MESSAGE.
That case should be documented.
The doc in the manual has the same bug (node Error Symbols). MESSAGE is
*not* necessarily a string.
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
Bzr revision: 118168 rgm@gnu.org-20141020195941-icp42t8ttcnud09g
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
`configure --enable-checking=yes,glyphs CPPFLAGS=-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1'
next reply other threads:[~2015-05-21 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-21 21:04 Drew Adams [this message]
2015-05-23 10:17 ` bug#20625: 25.0.50; doc of `define-error` is incorrect Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 19:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-04-30 19:42 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<b9eb3f53-8dec-4157-8a96-7634274687ac@default>
[not found] ` <<83382n38et.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-05-23 14:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-23 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-23 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-23 16:22 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<10eb5733-c84c-491d-86ca-2d6a05b80e7d@default>
[not found] ` <<83oalb1gvn.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-05-23 16:02 ` Drew Adams
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