From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: debug-quit Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:11:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352038299 26055 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2012 14:11:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 04 15:11:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TV0vT-0002x6-D9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:11:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV0vK-0003BR-Kt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:11:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV0vH-0003B9-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:11:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV0vH-0008Af-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:11:35 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:33958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV0vG-0008AZ-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id qA4EBUoH015124; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:11:31 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6ADEBAE1F7; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:11:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:35:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4392=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4392> : streams <851563> : uri <1259945> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154659 Archived-At: > When Emacs gets hung, and I didn't know it was going to hang, so I > didn't turn on debug-on-quit, it would be great to have a keystroke that > would drop me straight into the debugger. As it is, these things can be > almost impossible to diagnose. One possibility is to use `debug-on-event'. It's not a keystroke, tho. Stefan