GNU bug report logs - #18764
24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 15:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Found in versions 24.4, 26.1

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: Re: bug#18764: 24.4; electric-indent in *scratch* signals an error
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:39:06 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>,  18764 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:19:16 -0400
> 
> >> That's going to make user complaints like "why it doesn't indent" or "it 
> >> doesn't indent right" harder to debug and address.
> >
> > IMO, this is a lesser evil.  And if it turns out to be a real problem,
> > we could always add a variable to control whether such errors are
> > silently ignored.
> 
> We can be a little more discriminating than my initial blanket
> `ignore-errors', see commit message in the attached patch:

Fine with me, but I'd prefer a comment in the code explaining why we
catch errors here.

Thanks.
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