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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 10 Jul 1997 03:18:18 +0200
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of "09 Jul 1997 17:33:54 -0700"
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Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> > What does "don't display properly" mean?
> 
> I had been reading the message I'm responding to now (that's where
> your BBDB entry came from) and clicked on Michael's message.

Well, this looks good to me.  Have I missed anything?

> Right now if a user gets a strange beep, we can give a simple one
> sentence description of what to do:
> 
> Select Options -> General Options -> Debug On Error, repeat the
> problem and mail us the lisp stack backtrace you get.
> 
> 
> I do not believe raising the complexity of telling a naive user how
> to get a lisp stack backtrace is a win.

Well, this is what GNU Emacs does, and it's a good thing, if you ask
me.  It is now actually possible for XEmacs developers to work with
`debug-on-error' turned on.  And that *is* a win.

The design is best explained by the manual:

    The normal value of this variable [debug-ignored-errors] lists
    several errors that happen often during editing but rarely result
    from bugs in Lisp programs.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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`VI' - An editor used by those heretics that don't subscribe to
       the Emacs religion.

