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authorNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-02-11 18:13:54 -0500
committerNoam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>2017-06-29 19:40:22 -0400
commiteb9d3eca801c1ea847956a96fafd29eef9bbe5d1 (patch)
treebb2fdd865c9dff46545325d41bf2ba078720d7d7 /lisp/subr.el
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downloademacs-eb9d3eca801c1ea847956a96fafd29eef9bbe5d1.tar.gz
Escape control characters in backtraces (Bug#6991)
* src/print.c (syms_of_print): Add new variable, print-escape-control-characters. (print_object): Print control characters with octal escape codes when print-escape-control-characters is true. * lisp/subr.el (backtrace): * lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el (debugger-setup-buffer): Bind `print-escape-control-characters' to t.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/subr.el')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index d0c8517c543..a9edff6166f 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -4514,7 +4514,8 @@ EVALD, FUNC, ARGS, FLAGS are as in `mapbacktrace'."
(defun backtrace ()
"Print a trace of Lisp function calls currently active.
Output stream used is value of `standard-output'."
- (let ((print-level (or print-level 8)))
+ (let ((print-level (or print-level 8))
+ (print-escape-control-characters t))
(mapbacktrace #'backtrace--print-frame 'backtrace)))
(defun backtrace-frames (&optional base)