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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
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Miles Bader |
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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:34:12 +0900 |
> * wrong-type-argument (stringp, nil) is, anecdotally speaking, both
> the most common error encountered by casual users and the most feared,
> because it's incredibly difficult to debug. What's so hard about
> debugging it? It prevents Emacs from starting up!
Come to think of it, _this_ is a pretty dubious claim too (or rather,
it's a collection of dubious claims)...
-miles
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- proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Karl Fogel, 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, Helmut Eller, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/25
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/25
- 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