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Merge from upstream, upto version 5.22. After 5.0: `cperl-add-tags-recurse-noxs-fullpath': new function (for -batch mode) Fine-grained changelog: `cperl-hook-after-change': New configuration variable `cperl-vc-sccs-header': Likewise. `cperl-vc-sccs-header': Likewise. `cperl-vc-header-alist': Default via two preceding variables `cperl-invalid-face': Remove double quoting under XEmacs (still needed under 21.2) `cperl-tips': Update URLs for resources `cperl-problems': Likewise. `cperl-praise': Mention new features New C-c key bindings: for `cperl-find-bad-style', `cperl-pod-spell', `cperl-here-doc-spell', `cperl-narrow-to-here-doc', `cperl-perdoc', `cperl-perldoc-at-point' CPerl Mode menu changes: "Fix style by spaces", "Imenu on Perl Info" moved, new submenu of Tools with Ispell entries and narrowing. `cperl-after-sub-regexp': New defsubst `cperl-imenu--function-name-regexp-perl': Use `cperl-after-sub-regexp', Allows heads up to head4 Allow "package;" `defun-prompt-regexp': Use `cperl-after-sub-regexp', `paren-backwards-message': ??? Something for XEmacs??? `cperl-mode': Never auto-switch abbrev-mode off Try to allow '_' be non-word char Do not use `font-lock-unfontify-region-function' on XEmacs Reset syntax cache on mode start Support multiline facification (even on legacy `font-lock') `cperl-facemenu-add-face-function': ??? Some contributed code ??? `cperl-after-change-function': Since `font-lock' and `lazy-lock' refuse to inform us whether the fontification is due to lazy calling or due to edit to a buffer, install our own hook (controlled by `cperl-hook-after-change') `cperl-electric-pod': =cut may have been recognized as start `cperl-block-p': Moved, updated for attributes `cperl-calculate-indent': Try to allow '_' be non-word char Support subs with attributes `cperl-where-am-i': Queit (?) a warning `cperl-cached-syntax-table' New function `cperl-forward-re': Use `cperl-cached-syntax-table' `cperl-unwind-to-safe': Recognize `syntax-type' property changing in a middle of line `cperl-find-sub-attrs': New function `cperl-find-pods-heres': Allow many <<EOP per line Allow subs with attributes Major speedups (3.5x..15x on a real-life test file nph-proxy.pl) Recognize "extproc " (OS/2) case-folded and only at start /x on s///x with empty replacement was not recognized Better comments `cperl-after-block-p': Remarks on diff with `cperl-block-p' Allow subs with attributes, labels Do not confuse "else::foo" with "else" Minor optimizations... `cperl-after-expr-p': Try to allow '_' be non-word char `cperl-fill-paragraph': Try to detect a major bug in Emacs with `looking-at' inside `narrow' and bulk out if found `cperl-imenu--create-perl-index': Updates for new `cperl-imenu--function-name-regexp-perl' `cperl-outline-level': Likewise `cperl-init-faces': Allow multiline subroutine headers and my/our declarations, and ones with comments Allow subroutine attributes `cperl-imenu-on-info': Better docstring. `cperl-etags' Rudimentary support for attributes Support for packages and "package;" `cperl-add-tags-recurse-noxs': Better (?) docstring `cperl-add-tags-recurse-noxs-fullpath': Likewise `cperl-tags-hier-init': Misprint for `fboundp' fixed `cperl-not-bad-style-regexp': Try to allow '_' be non-word char `cperl-perldoc': Add autoload `cperl-perldoc-at-point': Likewise `cperl-here-doc-spell': New function `cperl-pod-spell': Likewise `cperl-map-pods-heres': Likewise `cperl-get-here-doc-region': Likewise `cperl-font-lock-fontify-region-function': Likewise (backward compatibility for legacy `font-lock') `cperl-font-lock-unfontify-region-function': Fix style `cperl-fontify-syntaxically': Recognize and optimize away deferred calls with no-change. Governed by `cperl-hook-after-change' `cperl-fontify-update': Recognize that syntaxification region can be larger than fontification one. XXXX we leave `cperl-postpone' property, so this is quadratic... `cperl-fontify-update-bad': Temporary placeholder until it is clear how to implement `cperl-fontify-update'. `cperl-time-fontification': New function `attrib-group': New text attribute `multiline': New value: `syntax-type' text attribute

@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
@c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004,
@c   2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file elisp.texi for copying conditions.
@setfilename ../info/errors
@node Standard Errors, Standard Buffer-Local Variables, GNU Emacs Internals, Top
@appendix Standard Errors

  Here is the complete list of the error symbols in standard Emacs,
grouped by concept.  The list includes each symbol's message (on the
@code{error-message} property of the symbol) and a cross reference to a
description of how the error can occur.

  Each error symbol has an @code{error-conditions} property that is a
list of symbols.  Normally this list includes the error symbol itself
and the symbol @code{error}.  Occasionally it includes additional
symbols, which are intermediate classifications, narrower than
@code{error} but broader than a single error symbol.  For example, all
the errors in accessing files have the condition @code{file-error}.  If
we do not say here that a certain error symbol has additional error
conditions, that means it has none.

  As a special exception, the error symbol @code{quit} does not have the
condition @code{error}, because quitting is not considered an error.

  @xref{Errors}, for an explanation of how errors are generated and
handled.

@table @code
@item @var{symbol}
@var{string}; @var{reference}.

@item error
@code{"error"}@*
@xref{Errors}.

@item quit
@code{"Quit"}@*
@xref{Quitting}.

@item args-out-of-range
@code{"Args out of range"}@*
This happens when trying to access an element beyond the range of a
sequence or buffer.@*
@xref{Sequences Arrays Vectors}, @xref{Text}.

@item arith-error
@code{"Arithmetic error"}@*
@xref{Arithmetic Operations}.

@item beginning-of-buffer
@code{"Beginning of buffer"}@*
@xref{Character Motion}.

@item buffer-read-only
@code{"Buffer is read-only"}@*
@xref{Read Only Buffers}.

@item coding-system-error
@code{"Invalid coding system"}@*
@xref{Lisp and Coding Systems}.

@item cyclic-function-indirection
@code{"Symbol's chain of function indirections\@* contains a loop"}@*
@xref{Function Indirection}.

@item cyclic-variable-indirection
@code{"Symbol's chain of variable indirections\@* contains a loop"}@*
@xref{Variable Aliases}.

@item end-of-buffer
@code{"End of buffer"}@*
@xref{Character Motion}.

@item end-of-file
@code{"End of file during parsing"}@*
Note that this is not a subcategory of @code{file-error},
because it pertains to the Lisp reader, not to file I/O.@*
@xref{Input Functions}.

@item file-already-exists
This is a subcategory of @code{file-error}.@*
@xref{Writing to Files}.

@item file-date-error
This is a subcategory of @code{file-error}.  It occurs when
@code{copy-file} tries and fails to set the last-modification time of
the output file.@*
@xref{Changing Files}.

@item file-error
We do not list the error-strings of this error and its subcategories,
because the error message is normally constructed from the data items
alone when the error condition @code{file-error} is present.  Thus,
the error-strings are not very relevant.  However, these error symbols
do have @code{error-message} properties, and if no data is provided,
the @code{error-message} property @emph{is} used.@*
@xref{Files}.

@item file-locked
This is a subcategory of @code{file-error}.@*
@xref{File Locks}.

@item file-supersession
This is a subcategory of @code{file-error}.@*
@xref{Modification Time}.

@item ftp-error
This is a subcategory of @code{file-error}, which results from problems
in accessing a remote file using ftp.@*
@xref{Remote Files,,, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}.

@item invalid-function
@code{"Invalid function"}@*
@xref{Function Indirection}.

@item invalid-read-syntax
@code{"Invalid read syntax"}@*
@xref{Printed Representation}.

@item invalid-regexp
@code{"Invalid regexp"}@*
@xref{Regular Expressions}.

@item mark-inactive
@code{"The mark is not active now"}@*
@xref{The Mark}.

@item no-catch
@code{"No catch for tag"}@*
@xref{Catch and Throw}.

@item scan-error
@code{"Scan error"}@*
This happens when certain syntax-parsing functions
find invalid syntax or mismatched parentheses.@*
@xref{List Motion}, and @ref{Parsing Expressions}.

@item search-failed
@code{"Search failed"}@*
@xref{Searching and Matching}.

@item setting-constant
@code{"Attempt to set a constant symbol"}@*
The values of the symbols @code{nil} and @code{t},
and any symbols that start with @samp{:},
may not be changed.@*
@xref{Constant Variables, , Variables that Never Change}.

@item text-read-only
@code{"Text is read-only"}@*
This is a subcategory of @code{buffer-read-only}.@*
@xref{Special Properties}.

@item undefined-color
@code{"Undefined color"}@*
@xref{Color Names}.

@item void-function
@code{"Symbol's function definition is void"}@*
@xref{Function Cells}.

@item void-variable
@code{"Symbol's value as variable is void"}@*
@xref{Accessing Variables}.

@item wrong-number-of-arguments
@code{"Wrong number of arguments"}@*
@xref{Classifying Lists}.

@item wrong-type-argument
@code{"Wrong type argument"}@*
@xref{Type Predicates}.
@end table

  These kinds of error, which are classified as special cases of
@code{arith-error}, can occur on certain systems for invalid use of
mathematical functions.

@table @code
@item domain-error
@code{"Arithmetic domain error"}@*
@xref{Math Functions}.

@item overflow-error
@code{"Arithmetic overflow error"}@*
This is a subcategory of @code{domain-error}.@*
@xref{Math Functions}.

@item range-error
@code{"Arithmetic range error"}@*
@xref{Math Functions}.

@item singularity-error
@code{"Arithmetic singularity error"}@*
This is a subcategory of @code{domain-error}.@*
@xref{Math Functions}.

@item underflow-error
@code{"Arithmetic underflow error"}@*
This is a subcategory of @code{domain-error}.@*
@xref{Math Functions}.
@end table

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