GNU bug report logs - #13889
lenient loading, feature request

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Message #11 received at 13889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13889: lenient loading, feature request
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:42:15 +0100

Am 06.03.2013 18:09, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:42:20 +0100
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
>>
>> Would welcome a feature "lenient loading", which signals the error, but goes on, tries to load the
>> remaining stuff from init.
>
> It might be a better idea to have a command that would continue
> loading from where it stopped.  This would allow the user to fix
> manually whatever was broken, and then continue from there.
>

Probably both is useful.
Someone might face a deadline the very day.
Emacs must work. No time to fix errors just now...
Error must not be as simple as a missing parenthesis.
Also imagine colleagues around, awaiting the result, wondering what the guy is doing ;)

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