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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 44942@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44942: 28.0.50; Emacs should print a backtrace on uncaught errors in batch mode
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:59:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lfeaan04.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkTSc6h_1=ZJ5iTHE+J=c_sd__pmK_H3WkfiU1hw41-eCw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:50:17 +0100)

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:50:17 +0100
> 
> Am So., 29. Nov. 2020 um 16:27 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> <p.stephani2@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Am So., 29. Nov. 2020 um 11:48 Uhr schrieb Philipp Stephani
> > <p.stephani2@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > $ emacs -Q -batch -eval '(progn (defun foo () (error "Boo")) (foo))'
> > > Boo
> > >
> > > Emacs should print a backtrace here to make it possible to debug such
> > > errors.  It's possible to force Emacs to print a backtrace by binding
> > > `debug-on-error', however, that is incorrect because it changes the
> > > meaning of `with-demoted-errors' and `condition-case-unless-debug',
> > > causing code that would normally work to fail with an error.  Instead,
> > > `signal' should print a backtrace if in batch mode and if it jumps to
> > > the top-level error handler.  It looks like this logic could be
> > > special-cased in signal_or_quit, similar to the debugger logic.
> > >
> >
> > I've attached a patch.
> 
> Pushed to master as commit 40e11743ca.

This is an incompatible change.  Is there a way to get back previous
behavior?  If so, please mention that in NEWS; if not, let's please
provide a way to get back the old behavior.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-06 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-29 10:47 bug#44942: 28.0.50; Emacs should print a backtrace on uncaught errors in batch mode Philipp Stephani
2020-11-29 15:27 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-06 16:50   ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-06 16:59     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-07 10:29       ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-07 10:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-07 11:07           ` Philipp Stephani
2020-12-07 15:45             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-07 15:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-12-07 15:29   ` Philipp Stephani

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