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Re: master 695f679: Remove ; ; ; ###tramp-autoload cookie from Tramp def


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: master 695f679: Remove ; ; ; ###tramp-autoload cookie from Tramp defcustoms (Bug#47063)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:05:50 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> What's the performance impact here?  This is going to be called a whole
> bunch of times when the user hits TAB...

It should be OK to do the condition-case wrapping around the loop rather
than within it, so the performance impact should be negligible.

> I'm also not quite sure why we should be ignoring these errors --
> they're code errors, like any others, and shouldn't be expected to
> fail, should they?

The purpose is to make sure people can still `M-x` even in the presence
of such errors.  They *should* never happen, but an error there shouldn't
render Emacs unusable ;-)


        Stefan




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