Re: Minibuffer and Dabbrev problems

[Kevin Rodgers]

K T Ligesh wrote:

>  You mean, you cannot 'return' from a function without generating an
>  error message? Elisp doesn't have a straight 'return' statement?

Yes.  But the Common Lisp emulaton library has both `return' and `return-from'.

Just add this to your .emacs file:

(require 'cl)


>  Actually coming from the vim world, all these error messages are sort
>  of strange. For a person used to just a beep, after some time, these
>  messages can get into your head.

See http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/poor-mans-vi-mode.html

>  There should be some option for advanced users to turn off -all-
>  error messages; they do cause certain discomfort. But I guess, that
>  is not trivially possible. I will just have to rewrite those
>  functions without those error messages...  That will mean a lot of
>  rewrite though....

Why don't you just rewrite/advise the `error' and/or `signal' function?
(See the "Signalling Errors" node of the Emacs Lisp manual.)


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