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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:59:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yrcw+Kaq1P4WS8x1@ACM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edzchi3d.fsf@gnus.org>

Hello, Lars.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 17:35:02 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> >> This third group of users is poorly catered for by the current
> >> collection of mechanisms.  See also bug #56201, with thanks to
> >> Andreas and Lars who helped me get to the bottom of it.  To be
> >> reasonably sure of getting a backtrace, it seems one needs to do
> >> all of the following:
> >> (i) (setq debug-on-error t).
> >> (ii) (setq debug-on-signal t).
> >> (iii) Bind debug-ignored-errors to nil.
> >> (iv) Pray.

> You probably also need to ensure that inhibit-redisplay is nil at the
> point of the error, I think?  (At least I vaguely recall having to
> remove some of those bindings to get a backtrace...)

For example, by testing a flag in the backtrace function, and binding
inhibit-redisplay to nil if that flag is set.  This could get quite
complicate quite quickly.

Another thing I'd like to be able to do is get a backtrace when there's
an error in font-locking during redisplay.  That's a whole order of
magnitude difference in complexity.

> > I mean something like the following, which to a first approximation,
> > works.  To use it, do M-x debug-next-command and the execute the
> > command expected to give errors:

> I like it, but it may not be useful in all contexts -- errors are used
> as a programming mechanism here and there (i.e., throwing an error
> symbol to be caught by the caller), and you'll get backtraces from
> these non-error errors, too, unfortunately.

As I suggested in my reply to Stefan, maybe a C-u argument to the
function could be used to exclude (or include) debug-on-signal from the
mix.  Or something like that.

> -- 
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-25 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-25 13:42 Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace? Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 15:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 15:30   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-25 15:52     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-25 16:27       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-06-25 15:35   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-25 15:59     ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2022-06-25 16:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-25 19:45         ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-26  5:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-27 19:48             ` Fontification error backtrace [Was: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?] Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-28 11:43               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-28 11:57               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-28 17:28                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-28 18:17                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-28 19:31                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-06-29 19:00                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 19:48                         ` Redisplay hook error bactraces [Was: Fontification error backtrace] Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 12:33                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-13 18:41                             ` Redisplay hook error backtraces Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 19:00                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-13 20:12                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 20:49                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-14  5:12                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14  9:01                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14  9:10                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 13:42                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 13:59                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 16:07                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 16:18                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-14 19:47                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-14 20:48                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-15  5:50                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-15 18:18                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-16  6:03                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 17:09                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-14 19:33                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-16  6:12                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-16 15:45                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 19:13                           ` Redisplay hook error bactraces [Was: Fontification error backtrace] Stefan Monnier
2022-07-13 19:24                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-13 19:58                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-13 20:45                               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-30 20:34                       ` Fontification error backtrace [Was: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?] Stefan Monnier
2022-07-01  5:39                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-01 15:34                           ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-01 16:04                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-01 19:14                               ` Juri Linkov
2022-07-01 19:26                           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-02  5:53                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-02 21:15                               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-02 20:27                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-07-02 21:12                           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-06-26  8:45 ` Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace? Stefan Monnier

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