From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#53012: 28.0.90; completion--nth-completion: Throw a meaningful error Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:19:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9908ba86-2117-9025-559c-dc7bc868b371@daniel-mendler.de> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10681"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 53012@debbugs.gnu.org To: Daniel Mendler Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 01:20:34 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u2b-0002dK-NF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2022 01:20:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33858 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u2a-00034I-9J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u26-00034A-9E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u26-00085a-0I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u25-0008Ld-Sw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:20:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:20:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 53012 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 53012-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B53012.164134197532052 (code B ref 53012); Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:20:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 53012) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Jan 2022 00:19:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39185 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u1f-0008Ku-Dk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:19:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:34422) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n4u1c-0008Ke-82 for 53012@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:19:34 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 2C416805B4; Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:19:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id BDA3F80365; Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:19:23 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1641341963; bh=YJwPT5mhpHoC+6UfQ6oo4kStmU4jGGrTZ1l4f0nV1Hs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=T4veXgXF2eQXLyIEjY0XW0tqBM7j05AgGFjtMfKKNt1XO51/1Yj2YsloIE6bsPhwr ORxUDLqWMidfRQL51J47G5ubf35LOooAGF3SKon0UOguolZfoHNRXEapVJb2X9bxwJ BK5XKaMP7iuNC1vk8wdbehAsVwytoQSmGE3Xoo68HXAsit/pBCoxJT9oS4c3CZnxDq xbDQRGSVKlWxkYrzKd21ATccXtyan0zZQOnkCBq3nKsO+Cj+bi7P4pxMyCJbXzXQEN tXciXz+dEIS8gVHa8oLqLtmRPCbSilO2J6muqcIPzramE0rNGQrZUzdQpd02Zo5yLO KHVUZRvpjnkBg== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [216.154.30.173]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 941C612023C; Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:19:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <9908ba86-2117-9025-559c-dc7bc868b371@daniel-mendler.de> (Daniel Mendler's message of "Tue, 4 Jan 2022 21:12:47 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:223671 Archived-At: Daniel Mendler [2022-01-04 21:12:47] wrote: > In the context of the GNU ELPA Vertico/Mct/Orderless/Embark ecosystem we > teach users to adjust the completion style. Unfortunately > completion--nth-completion is not very robust against misconfiguration. > I propose to throw a more meaningful error instead of the nil error. Thanks, looks good. Pushed to `master`. Stefan