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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2016-10-22 11:52:14 -0400 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2016-10-22 12:06:29 -0400 |
| commit | b2ba630739cf12db939cdcfe9cd19b6a7fdfbf97 (patch) | |
| tree | 47a1e3b6e3f03c77eb72ccb2effe48085c908913 | |
| parent | 9da53e2d353c97ab955fe8c35482b5eb335316c1 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-b2ba630739cf12db939cdcfe9cd19b6a7fdfbf97.tar.gz | |
Explain how to debug emacsclient lisp errors
* doc/lispref/debugging.texi (Error Debugging): Mention that
debug-on-signal is useful for getting backtraces from
emacsclient (Bug#24616).
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/debugging.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/debugging.texi b/doc/lispref/debugging.texi index c88a2fa60e0..371934377a8 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/debugging.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/debugging.texi @@ -152,6 +152,13 @@ presence of @code{condition-case}. (To invoke the debugger, the error must still fulfill the criteria specified by @code{debug-on-error} and @code{debug-ignored-errors}.) +@cindex emacsclient, getting a backtrace +@cindex backtrace from emacsclient's @option{--eval} +For example, setting this variable is useful to get a backtrace from +code evaluated by emacsclient's @option{--eval} option. If Lisp code +evaluated by emacsclient signals an error while this variable is +non-@code{nil}, the backtrace will popup in the running Emacs. + @strong{Warning:} Setting this variable to non-@code{nil} may have annoying effects. Various parts of Emacs catch errors in the normal course of affairs, and you may not even realize that errors happen |