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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 62320@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62320: 30.0.50; Thoughts about (info "(emacs) Bugs")
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:02:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6tzzzri.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8ii8bo7.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:08:08 +0200)

> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: 62320@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:08:08 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > > You also have worked in all my suggestions - apart from the "if you
> > > know how please load relevant Elisp source files before capturing an
> > > Elisp backtrace" one - intentionally?
> >
> > Maybe not.  Can you tell to which part of the text this was related?
> 
> That would be in (info "(emacs) Checklist") - the first item after "If
> you are willing to debug Emacs and provide additional information about
> the bug, here is some useful advice".

I remember debating whether it was important enough to have in this
already very long node.  But since now that part is near the end, as a
kind of "Advanced" section, I added that back.

> And apart from mentioning loading related Elisp source files, I want to
> say that mentioning Edebug in this first paragraph:
> 
>      This causes the error to start the Lisp debugger, which shows you a
>      backtrace.  Copy the text of the debugger’s backtrace into the bug
>      report.  *Note Edebug: (elisp)Edebug, for information on debugging
>      Emacs Lisp programs with the Edebug package.
> 
> is a bit unfortunate - we should either say that this is a different
> debugger, not to be confused with the one that pops up when enabling
> `debug-on-error', or just mention Edebug at a different place (in a
> footnote maybe?).

I tried to make it more clear that this is a different debugger.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-01 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-21  5:23 bug#62320: 30.0.50; Thoughts about (info "(emacs) Bugs") Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-21 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-22  2:21   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-23 13:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-29 15:19       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-29 15:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-30 16:08           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-04-01 10:02             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-20  2:26               ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-07-20  5:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21  2:42                 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-21  5:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-23  3:01                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-21  7:55                   ` Michael Albinus
2023-07-23  3:01                     ` Richard Stallman

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