Re: signalling errors in redisplay

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
> Date: 25 Nov 2001 17:11:54 +0000
> 
> What happens is that it just keeps repeating the error report, and
> your session is hosed unless you happen to have a second frame open,
> for instance, and can close it to stop redisplay of the problem
> window.
> 
> Shouldn't such errors in redisplay at least try to bury the buffer
> concerned and, preferably, produce an explanatory message?

AFAIK, it's a bug for redisplay code to signal an error, since that
triggers another redisplay.  If nothing else, it should put the
message text into *Messages* without signaling.