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bug#56201: Backtrace fails to appear in an error situation.
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#56201: Backtrace fails to appear in an error situation. |
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Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:23:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> This ought to produce a backtrace, but doesn't. It merely repeats the
> error message "Text is read-only". This is a major bug; how can one
> solve minor bugs if attempts to get diagnostic information are blocked?
There's a lot of error conditions that are "normal" and handled by the
code, and `debug-on-error' doesn't help you with that. You have to set
`debug-on-signal' to get a backtrace from those.
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