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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: 9463@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9463: 24.0.50; Errors should not be continuable
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:53:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmxdyj35p.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28vpj3dzt.fsf@gmail.com> (Helmut Eller's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:49:10 +0200")

>>> Incidentally, C-M-c does pretty much the same as what c does currently.
>> It does something similar but not identical and hence re-introduces some
>> of the problems that the change you don't like aimed to solve.
> And what exactly is the difference between C-M-c and c?

C-M-c does a (throw 'exit), so in the case where we've caught a signal,
it prevents the condition-case catchers from doing their job.

>> It's important to have a "c" that can "keep going (as much as possible)
>> as if nothing happened".
> And why was this not important in previous releases?

That's not a very constructive line of argument, I'm afraid.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08 12:01 bug#9463: 24.0.50; Errors should not be continuable Helmut Eller
2011-09-08 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-08 18:13   ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09  2:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-09  6:53       ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09 14:07         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-09 16:37           ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09 21:44             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-10 18:27               ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-19 21:17                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-20  6:49                   ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-20 21:53                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-09-21  8:05                       ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-21 19:09                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21 19:53                           ` Helmut Eller
2012-02-22  2:20                             ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09  7:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-09  7:36         ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09  7:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-09  8:22             ` Helmut Eller

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