Re: blink-cursor-end sometimes fails and disrupts pre-command-hook

[David Kastrup]

"Ken Manheimer" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 8/20/06, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>     i would really, really, *really* have liked to backtraces to help
>>     track this down, but emacs backtraces are useless for that by design.
>>     you have to know where to put them to get the backtrace from an error
>>     at that point.
>>
>> I do not understand that sentence.  What do you mean, "put them"?
>> What do you mean by "where"--what is a "place"?
>
> "put them" == put the `(backtrace)' call
> "where" == at the point in the code for which you want the backtrace.
>
> what i want, instead, is the ability to get a stack trace for an error
> when i am handling that error, in a condition-case or in the
> interactive interpreter.

(setq debug-on-signal t)

It's not actually a fun setting, since it catches quite a lot, but it
is useful.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum