Re: Why is it so difficult to get a Lisp backtrace?

[Stefan Kangas]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> One idea I had was to have an optional numerical argument, saying how
> many commands to leave the thing in place for.  Yet another, conflicting,
> idea would be to have an optional boolean argument to exclude
> debug-on-signal from the mix, so as not to get too many "expected"
> backtraces.

In my personal use, I'd probably put this behind a timer so that it is
disabled again automatically after 30 seconds (or something).  I do
that for `menu-bar-mode', for example, since I also only ever enable
that temporarily for testing.  But that might be too hacky for general
use.