Re: Any downside to condition-case-unless-debug?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I feel like a lot of my debugging recently has involved various ways of
  > working around `condition-case' and its swallowing of useful error
  > information. Is there any reason not to prefer
  > `condition-case-unless-debug' in new code?

If we wanted to have that behavior by default, then rather than change
lots of code gradually, how about making a new global flag
`debug-on-caught-error' which, when t, would make errors invoke
the debugger when they are about to be caught?

If `debug-on-caught-error' is `debug-on-error', then the value of
`debug-on-error' would control the behavior of errors about to be
caught.

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