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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 22:42:45 -0400
> 
>   > I've tried using debug-on-signal, but it triggers just too often to be
>   > helpful.
> 
> It would not be terribly hard or ugly to create new ways of speciflng
> which signals or errors should call the debugger.

We already have that for debug-on-error: the value could be a list of
errors, not just nil or t.