GNU bug report logs - #19903
24.4; Emacs fails to save enriched buffer with error message `wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold"'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jorge <jorge13515 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 19903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 19903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19903: 24.4;
 wrong-type-argument symbolp "bold" during enriched-encode 
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:09:35 +0000

>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

 >> + (warn "Face %S is a string; interning" face)

 >> + (message "Face %S is a string; interning" face)

 > Why `warn' in one and `message' in the other?

	By the time we hit this in ‘face-attribute’, the point at which
	the sub-setandard string-named face was introduced is presumably
	long gone, so there’s no good reason to use ‘warn’.

	On the contrary, ‘facemenu-add-face’ is likely to be invoked
	either directly by the user, or as part of some other
	interactive command.  Should the call result in a warning,
	the user would probably be able to gather enough context from
	his or her actions immediately preceding the warning.

 > These could end up spewing a lot of warnings at times, so it's a bit
 > risky, but if such uses are sufficiently rare it might be OK.

	At least so I hope.

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