From: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 24616@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24616: 26.0.50; No backtrace when emacsclient --eval fails
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 20:02:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9b73360-4b13-7e82-ec83-320201d70abc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_08SwUzohtD+=ZivzhmDt_TPb0RnsV3mijLLwiWijh+g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2016-10-04 19:50, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel
> <clement.pit@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-04 16:52, Noam Postavsky wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Start the server.
>>>> Then run e.g.
>>>>
>>>> $ emacsclient --eval '(progn (defun f () (error "foo")) (setq debug-on-error t) (f))'
>>>> *ERROR*: foo
>>>>
>>>> Note that there's no backtrace. This makes it almost impossible to debug
>>>> problems when using emacsclient.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just a note: you can get a backtrace by setting debug-on-signal
>>> instead of debug-on-error.
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> $ emacsclient --eval '(progn (defun f () (error "foo")) (setq debug-on-signal t debug-on-error t) (f))'
>> *ERROR*: foo
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious?
>
> The backtrace shows up in Emacs, where the server is running.
Thanks for clarifying!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-05 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-04 16:30 bug#24616: 26.0.50; No backtrace when emacsclient --eval fails Philipp Stephani
2016-10-04 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-04 20:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-04 22:28 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-10-04 23:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-05 0:02 ` Clément Pit--Claudel [this message]
2016-10-05 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 15:35 ` npostavs
2016-10-22 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-22 16:08 ` npostavs
2019-11-02 1:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-18 21:05 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-11-19 14:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2016-10-24 0:51 ` Live System User
2016-10-26 1:46 ` Noam Postavsky
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