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bug#6457: 24.0.50; Inappropriate error msg for set-variable
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#6457: 24.0.50; Inappropriate error msg for set-variable |
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Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:37:55 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> If so, I guess it is impossible for lisp code to know whether the user
>> originally typed an integer or a float. Therefore it is impossible to do
>> anything about this. It frankly doesn't seem worth bothering about
>> anyway.
>
> Then "wontfix" it.
I agree that it's a minor thing, but it's an "er what?" moment for the
user. So if anybody has an idea for how to fix this in a manner that
works across everything that asks for an integer, that would be nice...
Or is this problem only present for `set-variable'? Then it might not
be worth fixing.
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