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From: jcgs@wundt.harlqn.uucp (John Sturdy)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Better error handling for .emacs
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Date: 23 May 89 09:31:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu's message of 19 May 89 18:27:35 GMT

Ashwin writes:
>> It would be nice if you could always ask for a backtrace after an error
>> occurred.  The purpose of "debug-on-error" would then be to have this happen
>> automatically if desired.
Try (setq stack-trace-on-error t) -- but, like debug-on-entry, it does
not work while doing your .emacs!
__John (jcgs@uk.co.harlqn)