Re: wrong type error in local variables

[Douglas Lewan]

On 7/2/20 11:45 PM, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
editor wrote:
> Douglas Lewan wrote:
>
> > you should be verifying that the
> > (find-file-noselect) succeeded.
> BTW, how do you verify that?
>
>    (when (find-file-noselect "~/.emacs") t) ; t
>
> but also
>
>    (when (find-file-noselect "~/there-is-no-file") t) ; t
Good question. Maybe it can't fail. I've certainly worked in other 
worlds where such cases exist. I imagine that (find-file-noselect nil) 
would not behave well, but in that situation you probably should have 
caught the nil first.

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