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Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces


From: Ihor Radchenko
Subject: Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:18:19 +0000

Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:

> 14 juli 2023 kl. 10.00 skrev Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>:
>
>> It would be nice if the backtraces used `pp' instead of dumb truncation.
>> Though would make things much, much more readable.
>
> Not necessarily as it also means that uninteresting data takes up much more 
> space.
> Better have a way to expand and pretty-print individual stack frames on 
> demand in the backtrace buffer.

I am a bit confused.
Aren't we talking about terminal output?

>> Of course, the `condition-case' created by ERT will still be an issue.
>
> Yes, and that was probably what really caused Alan's troubles. We could do 
> something about that.

I think that this problem was left unresolved due to lack of ideas:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50629

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