GNU bug report logs - #65030
30.0.50; Check keyword args of make-process

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Reported by: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 06:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

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Message #35 received at 65030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, 65030 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eller.helmut <at> gmail.com,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#65030: 30.0.50; Check keyword args of make-process
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:05:06 +0200

8 aug. 2023 kl. 14.16 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:

> Misspelled arguments to make-process don't elicit errors as of now, do
> they?

No and that would be good to fix as well, but we should first make existing errors understandable.

For example, (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) is not a human-readable way to say "You forgot the :name parameter which is actually mandatory despite the docs making this almost impossible to find out"
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