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Re: Should debug-on-quit becomes t after kill -SIGUSR2?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Should debug-on-quit becomes t after kill -SIGUSR2? |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:51:48 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I start using this new debug-on-event a bit and I find the side effect
>> of permanently changing debug-on-quit to t annoying. Is it intentional?
> It's intention in the sense that that's how it was intended to work,
> but that's because the feature is designed to bring you to the
> debugger no matter what, and as a last resort. Maybe we can set a
> timer to undo the change to the variable once we break into the debugger.
Or rather than a timer, we could define that a special value
(e.g. `once') for debug-on-quit means that it is reset to nil after we
enter the debugger.
Stefan