severity 28797 minor
tags 28797 + patch
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Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Improving the format of error messages generated by catching error
> signals from C, so that the errors look almost like readable English
> instead of a dump of a list.
> 2. Those errors should generate a backtrace.. right now, a user needs
> to update the debug-on-message variable to force back traces for such
> messages which is, first: more cumbersome than doing M-x
> toggle-debug-on-error and then recreating the error, and second: not
> a common knowledge.

Here's a patch, uses error-message-string for #1,
condition-case-unless-debug for #2.