From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miguel Guedes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Debugging Elisp Date: 25 May 2013 09:10:26 GMT Message-ID: <51a08001$0$32589$862e30e2@ngroups.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369504136 22115 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 17:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:48:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 25 19:48:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgIaO-0006mx-DM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:48:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45993 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgIaO-0004jq-2m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 13:48:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.readnews.com!s09-01.readnews.com!not-for-mail Original-X-Trace: DXC=a3WNQMXW2E^; Q1jW4Lg]4[G^cGF?V7mIT]G0e@Sk_WTR\KSWKcAGbbTOk0<7meNZoYBVOE4Chkm=XBXXXWM[BEjYPSnE?_G8Je_gBL<2e9`eb^ Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0b21a818.ngroups.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198778 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:48:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91045 Archived-At: Hello List, Is it possible to set up emacs so as to output more meaningful messages when it steps into errors? I'd be so *very* grateful if someone contributed a tip that makes emacs output a line:col pair when it steps into an error as messages of the kind below are just so frustrating to debug (especially so when it's hard to replicate what causes them): Error in post-command-hook: (wrong-type-argument characterp wrong-type- argument) -- Miguel