I have the following backtrace:
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1736:10 9 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In unknown file:
8 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 651b40>)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
718:2 7 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle…>)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
619:8 6 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 74cf00>)))
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2806:4 5 (save-module-excursion _)
4351:12 4 (_)
In /home/jsynacek/./git.scm:
72:0 3 (_)
61:16 2 (change-spec _ _ "66.33" _ #<output: file 1>)
48:12 1 (change-release "# We ship a .pc file but don't want t…" …)
In unknown file:
0 (make-regexp "^Release:(\\s*).*$" "# We ship a .pc fil…" …)
ERROR: In procedure make-regexp:
Wrong type (expecting exact integer): "
<HERE COMES A LOOOONG STRING WHICH IS ABOUT 193000 CHARACTERS WIDE>
"
While this is probably not considered an error, I guess it might be better to ellipsize strings in errors such is mine that are over a certain length long. The important part of the backtrace was scrolled away and I got confused about the string, as I thought it was part of the output and started wondering why (display ...) keeps the escaped newlines in the string.
If this is not considered a bug, please, at least consider it an RFE.
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Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat