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changeset 60375:335c04088898
(Error Debugging): Document stack-trace-on-error.
| author | Lute Kamstra <lute@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:53:15 +0000 |
| parents | e68c831d220c |
| children | 4f506e54cd57 |
| files | lispref/debugging.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/debugging.texi Fri Mar 04 14:48:14 2005 +0000 +++ b/lispref/debugging.texi Fri Mar 04 14:53:15 2005 +0000 @@ -166,6 +166,20 @@ (lambda () (setq debug-on-error t))) @end example +When the debugger is entered, it shows a backtrace (@pxref{Using +Debugger}). If you like to see the backtrace when an error happens, +but you do not want to enter the debugger, you can set the variable +@code{stack-trace-on-error} to non-@code{nil}. + +@defopt stack-trace-on-error +This variable determines whether a backtrace buffer is shown when an +error is signalled and not handled. If @code{stack-trace-on-error} is +@code{t}, all kinds of errors display a backtrace; if it is +@code{nil}, none do. If the value is a list, an error only means to +display a backtrace if one of its condition symbols appears in the +list. +@end defopt + @node Infinite Loops @subsection Debugging Infinite Loops @cindex infinite loops