From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9463: 24.0.50; Errors should not be continuable Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:13:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315505658 17320 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2011 18:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:14:18 +0000 (UTC) To: 9463@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 08 20:14:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1j75-0007Zf-RX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:14:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42432 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1j75-00061M-CC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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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. I think the "do what would have happened if the debugger had not been called" thing should be a different command, like resignal or abort. c should only continue from truly continuable situations, like breakpoints. Helmut