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Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> ;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
>
> (condition-case my
>
>     (defun my-2-hello ()
>       (message "I am `my-hello'"))
>       
>   (error (message "%s" my)))
>
> (my-2-hello) ➜ "I am ‘my-hello’"

You are aware that this doesn't catch runtime errors, only errors that
appear when evaluating the `defun'?  The above will not be of much use
unless your code contains lots of very strange and malformed defuns like
(defun 1).


Michael.