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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
From: |
Jeremiah Dodds |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:59:24 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Jeremiah Dodds <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> and the downside is that some user is sitting there unable to start
>>>> Emacs because two required packages -- packages that may be used only
>>>> on demand or not at all -- are arguing over some runtime value.
>>>> That's a big downside.
>>>
>>> WTF do you keep going on about Emacs startup?
>>
>> I believe this is because it seems that the "uh-oh i got a nil when I
>> expected a string" error commonly happens on emacs startup, confusing
>> new users, presumably after loading some big bunch of elisp.
>
> Does it? I don't think I've _ever_ seen that error at startup (though
> I've certainly had errors during startup)...
>
> -miles
It's happened to me enough times over the course of the decade or so
that I've been using emacs to remember it. I know that the first few
times it happened, I was pretty green and got really confused for a
while. Nowadays, I know how to figure out wtf is going on.
Unfortunately I don't remember the specifics of what triggered the error
for any of the times I ran into the issue.
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, (continued)
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Andreas Schwab, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Jeremiah Dodds, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y,
Jeremiah Dodds <=
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Nix, 2012/04/27
- Better startup error handling (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y), Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/27
- Re: Better startup error handling, Nix, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, David Engster, 2012/04/28
- RE: Better startup error handling, Drew Adams, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/04/28