From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about handling file deletion
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:40:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmwq96err.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2r6zl5j.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (Stephen Berman's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:36:56 +0200")
> E.g. bug#14688. If you have debug-on-error enabled, you get the two
> backtraces Leo reported (wrong-type-argument due to (find-file-noselect
> nil), followed by file-error "Removing old name" "no such file or
> directory" due to calling delete-file on the file that was already
> deleted). But if debug-on-error is disabled, you just get "Removing old
> name: no such file or directory, /data/steve/.emacs.d/todo/Todo.todo" in
> the echo area and above it a buffer in Todo mode whose name is the todo
> file you just created. If you try to add a category, you get
> "find-file-noselect: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". If you
> mistakenly think there is a category and try to navigate with `f' or
> `b', you get "todo-forward-category: Arithmetic error"; if you try to
> insert an item with e.g. `i i' you get prompted but after typing the
> item text and hitting RET, you get "todo-basic-insert-item: Args out of
> range: 1, 2". Similar errors and other odd behavior can occur if you
> leave the Todo mode buffer live after deleting the file, and can arise
> later, after adding more todo files and using other commands. So I
> guess I have to bite the bullet and make Todo mode catch these errors.
Indeed, these errors seem annoying enough that we should try to handle
it a bit better.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-28 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-26 12:22 Question about handling file deletion Stephen Berman
2013-06-26 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-26 22:36 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-27 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-28 8:36 ` Stephen Berman
2013-06-28 22:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-06-29 13:37 ` Timur Aydin
2013-06-29 22:44 ` Stephen Berman
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