From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: debug-quit Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:42:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352047362 31674 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2012 16:42:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 16:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 04 17:42:50 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 1TV3Hd-0000gD-9A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:42:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV3HU-0002Ym-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:42:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43695) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV3HR-0002YP-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV3HJ-000114-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:42:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:43642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TV3HJ-00010Z-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id fl17so6074521vcb.0 for ; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:42:27 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=xLrghL5gzH40KPhsRMyl6Qzf4ZQ2svc1imqm5g30Ytg=; b=UVdqkCbhMPwFsRYNHzj7Pq+qMClHHWOBRcnPkh2dYv/mtLn+5AqsVzUeWBEgzdO08d Pcf3V8v+/dA0k66qPan4F3oHOaxIQKDxel7hgLKcsKuFKIlWGeWAtoI+XyK/iad85bfY 4QqppjZ0uLkkdzDAwgVugORVnvL01c9aidzNub8bVw/NTZ0cgCjSPrJXxanqSEND0fMd nhL6OUwVbN/dEX9o4HMj5DD8GHSf1Lq9sYJNseOCwYIf8+B50LYbXaBUfRz8iLKKTLf/ vdx1BS1pnYztCJlz91yLaTh6MK4W3RGhMyaA2lp8UxUUDGUAeoHfURiWUc6iCmEaWvTw 7QBw== Original-Received: by 10.52.27.82 with SMTP id r18mr6259450vdg.120.1352047347788; Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:42:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from pluto.boostpro.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com. [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y7sm8339038vdt.1.2012.11.04.08.42.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:42:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by pluto.boostpro.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4EEFF6A71D3B; Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:42:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:11:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (darwin) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlEBK19jHCAuj8ARgIsqj6wtcqJi/yPyyEKLugR2EKHXzQMrFhHy8QHBLxHTFG9Jg6r0c+f X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.220.169 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:154662 Archived-At: on Sun Nov 04 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> 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. M-x apropos doesn't know what `debug-on-event' is, and neither do I -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost