From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't set debug-on-error to nil Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:35:04 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87bpzx48jr.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218616944 10031 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2008 08:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:42:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 10:43:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KTBwm-0008IM-3T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:43:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTBvp-0004YP-VV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:42:13 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:07l0Ykq8nKz1yqIVmnIgFfQUIs0= Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 7055d514.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=I>g[A\1iOb4l`aiKB9>hO1L?0kYOcDh@:IGb]mONgOi:VjgcTnf16L9VnN^9`j1TF5MB`ZS]d^X86 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161203 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56546 Archived-At: Yevgeniy Makarov writes: > Hello, > > In my Emacs sessions, the variable debug-on-error is always t, so > every error pops a buffer with "Debugger entered--Lisp error", etc. I > found the following: > > * M-x describe-variable debug-on-error says that its value is nil, but > M-: debug-on-error prints t > > * This happens even if I start Emacs with -Q option > > * I tried putting (setq debug-on-error nil) in the beginning and in > the end of .emacs, as well as customizing the variable to nil (there > is an entry '(debug-on-error nil) in custom-set-variables), but it did > not help. > > * There is nothing about debug in my .Xdefaults > > So where is it set to t, and how can I set it to nil? > > I have GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 of 2008-01-25 on Linux. > > Thank you, > Evgeny It has to be something local. However, I note that your version is VERY old given we are talking about CVS versions and from memory, there was a fair amount of instability in the CVS version early in the year. My advice would be to grab an updated CVS snapshot and re-build. the problem may be due to a bug that has long since been fixed (though I don't remember anything like that and I tend to update at least weekly). When using CVS versions, you really want to stay fairly close to the head. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au