From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New(?) idea for making backtraces usable: condition-case*
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 22:42:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1qMg6P-0003bJ-Ro@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZLhI-qU8uhRX4fbX@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:35:06 +0000)
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> 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. They could implement
whatever additional conditions you like, by specifying a function to call
which should return non-nil to call the debugger.
What would make this simple and clean is that instead of saving
backtrace information to be looked at later, it would call the debugger
instead of copying a selectio of data in internatl formats.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-21 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-17 13:52 New(?) idea for making backtraces usable: condition-case* Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-17 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-19 2:19 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-19 20:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-20 4:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 2:42 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-07-21 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 5:59 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-19 2:19 ` Richard Stallman
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2023-07-18 4:38 Gerd Möllmann
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