From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 18:27:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=Jhgp_OU96c0oySi3JYJg_UxWF4D7MwVoMb7y5KGH6HA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YrcvPqDuQ6EWYSXN@ACM>
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> One idea I had was to have an optional numerical argument, saying how
> many commands to leave the thing in place for. Yet another, conflicting,
> idea would be to have an optional boolean argument to exclude
> debug-on-signal from the mix, so as not to get too many "expected"
> backtraces.
In my personal use, I'd probably put this behind a timer so that it is
disabled again automatically after 30 seconds (or something). I do
that for `menu-bar-mode', for example, since I also only ever enable
that temporarily for testing. But that might be too hacky for general
use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-25 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-25 13:42 Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace? Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 15:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 15:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-25 15:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 16:27 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-06-25 15:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-25 15:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-25 19:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-26 5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-27 19:48 ` Fontification error backtrace [Was: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?] Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-28 11:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-28 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-28 17:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-28 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-28 19:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-29 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 19:48 ` Redisplay hook error bactraces [Was: Fontification error backtrace] Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-13 18:41 ` Redisplay hook error backtraces Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-13 20:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-14 5:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 9:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 13:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 16:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-14 19:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 20:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-15 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-15 18:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-16 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 19:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-16 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-16 15:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 19:13 ` Redisplay hook error bactraces [Was: Fontification error backtrace] Stefan Monnier
2022-07-13 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-13 19:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-30 20:34 ` Fontification error backtrace [Was: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?] Stefan Monnier
2022-07-01 5:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-01 15:34 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-01 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-01 19:14 ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-01 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-02 5:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-02 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-02 20:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-02 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-26 8:45 ` Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace? Stefan Monnier
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