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26.0.50; url-retrieve errors are peculiar

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25735: 26.0.50; url-retrieve errors are peculiar
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 05:59:17 +0200

Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com> writes:

> If there's a way to use that data to format an error message,
> it would be good to provide an example, or a "see info node X",
> if it's a common idiom.
>
> I think usually if you're looking at a docstring it's because you
> want to know how to use the function (as well as what it is for
> and what exactly it does, which I think are covered in this case).

Well, I think we should assume that people know what arguments `error'
takes, and the structure of the error data is now documented correctly.
So I think that should be sufficient.

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