From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any downside to condition-case-unless-debug?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 21:48:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsy7tqey.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1lmUM2-0002rd-3D@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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> > I feel like a lot of my debugging recently has involved various ways of
> > working around `condition-case' and its swallowing of useful error
> > information. Is there any reason not to prefer
> > `condition-case-unless-debug' in new code?
>
> If we wanted to have that behavior by default, then rather than change
> lots of code gradually, how about making a new global flag
> `debug-on-caught-error' which, when t, would make errors invoke
> the debugger when they are about to be caught?
>
> If `debug-on-caught-error' is `debug-on-error', then the value of
> `debug-on-error' would control the behavior of errors about to be
> caught.
Would this help work around the ERT interference that Glenn referenced?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-28 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-27 16:38 Any downside to condition-case-unless-debug? Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-27 17:02 ` Glenn Morris
2021-05-27 17:06 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-27 23:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-28 2:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-28 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-05-28 4:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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