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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/subr.el | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el index f73a29ad11b..f96351e6e4d 100644 --- a/lisp/subr.el +++ b/lisp/subr.el @@ -704,7 +704,10 @@ This function accepts any number of arguments, but ignores them." nil) (defun error (&rest args) - "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'." + "Signal an error, making error message by passing all args to `format'. +In Emacs, the convention is that error messages start with a capital +letter but *do not* end with a period. Please follow this convention +for the sake of consistency." (while t (signal 'error (list (apply 'format args))))) |