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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: 9463@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9463: 24.0.50; Errors should not be continuable
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:31:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlitznov5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sjo71bvo.fsf@gmail.com> (Helmut Eller's message of "Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:01:31 +0200")

> emacs -Q -eval '(let ((debug-on-error t)) (error "foo"))'
> enters the debugger.  Pressing c somehow manages to continue.  That make
> no sense to me.  The debugger should instead not continue and say
> that errors are not continuable.

"c" in errors now "continues" in the sense of "do what would have
happened if the debugger had not been called".  I.e. it will actually
signal the error which can then be caught by condition-cases further up
the stack, .... I.e. it's very similar to what happens with "q", but is
often cleaner.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08 12:01 bug#9463: 24.0.50; Errors should not be continuable Helmut Eller
2011-09-08 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-09-08 18:13   ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09  2:23     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-09  6:53       ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09 14:07         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-09 16:37           ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09 21:44             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-10 18:27               ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-19 21:17                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-20  6:49                   ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-20 21:53                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21  8:05                       ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-21 19:09                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21 19:53                           ` Helmut Eller
2012-02-22  2:20                             ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09  7:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-09  7:36         ` Helmut Eller
2011-09-09  7:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-09  8:22             ` Helmut Eller

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