From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 56201@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56201: Backtrace fails to appear in an error situation.
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:42:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrX3jVip5wh///JH@ACM> (raw)
Hello, Emacs.
(i) With the master branch, start Emacs (-Q not needed).
(ii) Visit a non-empty file in a buffer.
(iii) M-s o <regexp that will generate matches>.
(iv) C-x o to move to the *Occur* buffer.
(v) Move point to somewhere in the displayed matches.
(vi) C-x C-q to swith off read-onliness.
(vii) C-j, an attempt to insert a newline.
This produces the error message "Text is read-only". This is probably a
bug, but is minor compared to what follows:
(viii) M-: (setq debug-on-error t) RET.
(ix) C-j.
This ought to produce a backtrace, but doesn't. It merely repeats the
error message "Text is read-only". This is a major bug; how can one
solve minor bugs if attempts to get diagnostic information are blocked?
It would appear a frivolous condition-case is discarding the backtrace
here. This appears to happen with lots of error messages. This is not
a Good Thing.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2022-06-24 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-24 17:42 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-06-24 18:22 ` bug#56201: Backtrace fails to appear in an error situation Andreas Schwab
2022-06-24 18:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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