GNU bug report logs - #61658
30.0.50; server-eval-at might handle unreadable results better

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 16:26:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 30.0.50; server-eval-at might handle unreadable results better
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 09:25:34 -0700

Hello,

I use server-eval-at to call a function, in another daemon, which
returns a buffer.  So, server-eval-at tries (read "#<buffer *foo*>")
which of course fails, and indeed signals an error.

I wonder if server-eval-at should return a special value to indicate
that the remote computation returned something that is not readably
printable?  Or signal a particular error, which the caller might catch?

-- 
Sean Whitton
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