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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2012-09-04 23:21:00 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2012-09-04 23:21:00 +0200
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Implement `debug-on-message'.
This allows tracking down what piece of code is outputting stuff in the echo area. * eval.c (call_debugger): Make the function non-static so that we can call it from set_message. * xdisp.c (set_message): Implement the new variable `debug-on-message'. (syms_of_xdisp): Defvar it and `inhibit-debug-on-message'.
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@@ -298,6 +298,11 @@ of @code{(debug)} isn't ignored, it will alter the execution of the
program!) The most common suitable places are inside a @code{progn} or
an implicit @code{progn} (@pxref{Sequencing}).
+ If you don't know exactly where in the source code you want to put
+the debug statement, but you want to display a backtrace when a
+certain message is displayed, you can set @code{debug-on-message} to a
+regular expression matching the desired message.
+
@node Using Debugger
@subsection Using the Debugger