Mercurial > emacs
diff lispref/errors.texi @ 2899:462fc7e81e6e
Initial revision
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
---|---|
date | Wed, 19 May 1993 15:21:44 +0000 |
parents | |
children | 8bf07ff6a929 |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/lispref/errors.texi Wed May 19 15:21:44 1993 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +@c -*-texinfo-*- +@c This is part of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual. +@c Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 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 which 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}. + + 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"}@* +@xref{Sequences Arrays Vectors}. + +@item arith-error +@code{"Arithmetic error"}@* +See @code{/} and @code{%} in @ref{Numbers}. + +@item beginning-of-buffer +@code{"Beginning of buffer"}@* +@xref{Motion}. + +@item buffer-read-only +@code{"Buffer is read-only"}@* +@xref{Read Only Buffers}. + +@item end-of-buffer +@code{"End of buffer"}@* +@xref{Motion}. + +@item end-of-file +@code{"End of file during parsing"}@* +This is not a @code{file-error}.@* +@xref{Input Functions}. + +@item file-error +This error, and its subcategories, do not have +error-strings, because the error message is constructed from the data +items alone when the error condition @code{file-error} is present.@* +@xref{Files}. + +@item file-locked +This is a @code{file-error}.@* +@xref{File Locks}. + +@item file-already-exists +This is a @code{file-error}.@* +@xref{Writing to Files}. + +@item file-supersession +This is a @code{file-error}.@* +@xref{Buffer Modification}. + +@item invalid-function +@code{"Invalid function"}@* +@xref{Classifying Lists}. + +@item invalid-read-syntax +@code{"Invalid read syntax"}@* +@xref{Input Functions}. + +@item invalid-regexp +@code{"Invalid regexp"}@* +@xref{Regular Expressions}. + +@item no-catch +@code{"No catch for tag"}@* +@xref{Catch and Throw}. + +@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} +may not be changed.@* +@xref{Constant Variables, , Variables that Never Change}. + +@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