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Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces


From: Ihor Radchenko
Subject: Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:00:17 +0000

Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:

>> test suite truncating every line at ~70 characters.  (Why is this done?)
>
> I agree, that's annoying. We have to truncate at some point or we'll be 
> treated to dumps of impractical size before we know it, but 70 chars is 
> pretty useless.

It would be nice if the backtraces used `pp' instead of dumb truncation.
Though would make things much, much more readable.

Of course, the `condition-case' created by ERT will still be an issue.

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