From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: A way to get a traceback to a buffer or a string
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:24:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <475F3866.6090901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J2ALx-0004Pj-7x@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> In some situations you may know that a function call will cause an
> error. You may then want to get a traceback from this particular call,
> without user intervention.
>
> Can you explain why this is useful? I do not see the usefulness.
I have used this in fontification routines to get a backtrace. At least
on w32 you need to do something like this when you want a backtrace when
an error happens in a timer.
Is that not the case in Emacs on GNU/Linux?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 0:56 Feature request: A way to get a traceback to a buffer or a string Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-11 10:12 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-11 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-12 1:24 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-12-12 12:53 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-12-12 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-12 16:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-12 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
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