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Re: X error handler
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: X error handler |
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Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:16:40 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> It seems to me cleaner to make the protocol error handler do nothing
> by default (rather than kill Emacs). When x_catch_errors is on, we
> can carry out the current behavior, i.e., storing the error string
> etc.
>
> This might be a good idea, but I tend to think there must have been
> some reason for writing the code originally not to do so.
>
> Can anyone think of a drawback for this?
>
> One possible drawback is that bugs get ignored rather than fixed.
> But I am not sure that really matters.
We can always make the default error handler print to stderr when
ENABLE_CHECKING is on.
But since this seems like a non-trivial change, and doesn't fix any
bug, I guess we can put it off till after the release.
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