[Emacs-diffs] emacs-24 r117494: * etc/NEWS: Mention timer error reporting.

[Glenn Morris]

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revno: 117494
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
committer: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
branch nick: emacs-24
timestamp: Thu 2014-09-11 13:35:44 -0400
message:
  * etc/NEWS: Mention timer error reporting.
  Ref: http://debbugs.gnu.org/18444#8
modified:
  etc/NEWS                       news-20100311060928-aoit31wvzf25yr1z-1

=== modified file 'etc/NEWS'
--- a/etc/NEWS  2014-09-09 01:20:01 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS  2014-09-11 17:35:44 +0000
@@ -1124,6 +1124,11 @@
 
 *** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
 
+*** Errors from timer functions are no longer silently discarded,
+but are reported as messages.  So you may see "Error running timer"
+messages from code that was failing silently till now.  Set
+`debug-on-error' non-nil to get a real error and a backtrace.
+
 ** Faces
 
 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec