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Re: M-x ediff-files doesn't notify user of missing ediff-diff-program


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: M-x ediff-files doesn't notify user of missing ediff-diff-program
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:02:05 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>               (condition-case nil
>                   (apply 'call-process program nil buffer nil args)
> !               (error (error "Cannot execute program %S." program)))

BTW, why catch the error and re-raise it immediately?
The only reason I can think of is to raise a more user-friendly error, but
I'm not sure the above is more user-friendly, and if it is, then maybe
call-process's error message should be changed instead.


        Stefan




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