Re: wrong type error in local variables

[Emanuel Berg]

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

find-file-noselect: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

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