Re: error-error

[John Paul Wallington]

Andreas Roehler <address@hidden> writes:

> Evaluation of the given example
>
>           (error "That is an error -- try something else")
>
> results in:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "That is an error -- try something
> else")
>   signal(error ("That is an error -- try something else"))
>   error("That is an error -- try something else")
>   eval((error "That is an error -- try something else"))
>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
>
> --
>
> Asking the value of debug-on-error
> : is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is nil

Thanks for the report.  I don't think this is a bug.  See the user
variable `eval-expression-debug-on-error' -- if non-nil (the default
value) then `debug-on-error' is set to t within interactive evaluation
commands such as `eval-expression' and `eval-last-sexp'.