From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Forward-char at end of buffer
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:14:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7ri2k$5fd$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606261817.k5QIHIS4013711@ushabti.sfbay.sun.com>
Whitfield Diffie wrote:
> Am I missing something?
>
> Visit an empty buffer in a fresh --no-init emacs. Set debug-on-error
> to true and type a control -f. An `end of buffer error will appear in the
> echo area but no backtrace. Type control-x control-x and a `No mark set in
> this buffer' error message appears and causes a backtrace.
>
> Alternatively in the same circumstances, evaluate
>
> (progn (setq aa 1) (forward-char 1) (setq bb 2))
>
> The variable aa now has the value 1 and bb is undefined.
>
>
> This seems to be true in emacs 21 on both Solaris and MacOs X.
> Forward-char wasn't meant to produce an untrapped error was it?
C-h v debug-ignored-errors
debug-ignored-errors is documented in the Emacs Lisp manual immediately
following debug-on-error.
--
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-27 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 18:17 Forward-char at end of buffer Whitfield Diffie
2006-06-27 15:14 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-06-27 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
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