GNU bug report logs - #29838
26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 17:28:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 26.0

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 29838 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 29838 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29838: 26.0; Elisp manual: describe standard-error sexps
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 09:52:16 +0100

On Dez 24 2017, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:

>> > If users never saw such messages then perhaps there
>> > would be no need to describe such things as
>> > `(args-out-of-range 9 9)'.  If they saw only nice
>> > error messages such as "Args out of range: [1 2 3 4], -1"
>> > then there would be no such problem.
>> 
>> Is "Args out of range: 9, 9" any more informative?
>
> Of course not.  But that's not the corresponding
> error message, is it?

Yes, it is.

Andreas.

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