Package: emacs;
Reported by: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 13:47:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 29.2.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com> To: 71258 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#71258: 29.2.50; insert-file-contents has a confusing error when called on a directory Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 09:45:54 -0400
1. emacs -Q 2. M-: (insert-file-contents "~") RET 3. Observe (error "Maximum buffer size exceeded") since ~ is a directory. This is quite confusing as an error message, it should be something else instead. 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