From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Undesired interactive call of major mode command
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:56:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppcdi79z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppceop33.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (Stephen Berman's message of "Sat, 22 Nov 2014 23:19:44 +0100")
> - If you call todo-mode in an empty non-file buffer, you get the error
> (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil) because todo-mode calls
> (file-truename (buffer-file-name)) (this was the error of bug#19112).
Signaling such an error is indeed a bug here. Better emit a message.
> - If you call todo-mode in a non-empty buffer (whether or not it is
> visiting a file (except a Todo mode file, of course), you get the
> Todo mode error "Invalid or missing todo-categories sexp", because the
> buffer text does not conform to the Todo mode file format.
That's probably OK.
> - If you call todo-mode in a buffer visiting an empty file, you get no
> error, but since the buffer is then in Todo mode, if you invoke any
> Todo mode command you'll get an error, again because of the invalid
> file format for Todo mode.
Of course, an alternative might be to move some of the code outside of
todo-mode to some other function.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-24 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-22 14:23 Undesired interactive call of major mode command Stephen Berman
2014-11-22 16:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-22 22:19 ` Stephen Berman
2014-11-24 3:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-11-25 21:58 ` Stephen Berman
2014-11-26 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-26 13:39 ` Stephen Berman
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