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> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:52:41 +0200
> 
> I often get backtraces that are so truncated that I can't really use
> them for anything.  Andreas pointed out that Fbacktrace sets print-level
> to 3:

Can you show an example of this limitation in action?  I don't recall
having any problems with Lisp backtraces, they are certainly longer
than 3 levels.  Maybe I'm missing something.