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23.3; Undocumented setting of eval-expression-debug-on-error

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From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: U.S.Reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk
Subject: 23.3; Undocumented setting of eval-expression-debug-on-error
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:23:53 +0100

There is a tricky variable called `eval-expression-debug-on-error' which
I didn't notice till recently.

It is getting set automatically in lisp-interaction-mode and in the Lisp
debugger.  The manual doesn't say anywhere that this is being done.

I would prefer that it doesn't get set automatically, given that it has a
tricky behavior.  In the light of my previous bug report #8548 that the
debugger can't exit recursive editing levels, making any kind of typing
mistake while working with the debugger puts it in a recursive editing level
where it gets stuck.

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8548

If you don't want to change the lisp-interaction-mode and the debugger-mode,
can you at least document it in the manual that the variable gets set in
these modes so that the users can unset it in the mode-hooks?  I have
suffered for several years needlessly.

(By the way, edebug doesn't seem to set the variable.)

Cheers,
Uday




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Message #8 received at 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.3; Undocumented setting of eval-expression-debug-on-error
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:18:15 +0200

Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> There is a tricky variable called `eval-expression-debug-on-error' which
> I didn't notice till recently.
>
> It is getting set automatically in lisp-interaction-mode and in the Lisp
> debugger.  The manual doesn't say anywhere that this is being done.
>
> I would prefer that it doesn't get set automatically, given that it has a
> tricky behavior.  In the light of my previous bug report #8548 that the
> debugger can't exit recursive editing levels, making any kind of typing
> mistake while working with the debugger puts it in a recursive editing level
> where it gets stuck.
>
>   http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8548
>
> If you don't want to change the lisp-interaction-mode and the debugger-mode,
> can you at least document it in the manual that the variable gets set in
> these modes so that the users can unset it in the mode-hooks?  I have
> suffered for several years needlessly.

I've now mentioned this in the manual, but I've been trying to grep
through the code and see why/where this is done, and I'm coming up
empty.

Does anybody know?  And is this a feature or a bug?
`eval-expression-debug-on-error' doesn't sound like something that
should affect `M-x debug', and the other `eval-expression-' variables
are not heeded by doing `M-x debug'.  So it seems inconsistent and
somewhat confusing.

-- 
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Message #11 received at 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>, 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.3; Undocumented setting of eval-expression-debug-on-error
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:53:19 +0100

Dear Lars, thanks for your help with Emacs bugs!  In response to my other
related bug report, #8548, Stefan said that "this part of the C code was
changed recently".  I haven't checked the development version yet.  I will
do so now.

Cheers,
Uday

Message #14 received at 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>, 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.3; Undocumented setting of eval-expression-debug-on-error
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:12:03 +0100

Ok, Checked the development branch as of 2011-06-13.  The variable
`eval-expression-debug-on-error' continues to get set.

On the other hand, exit-recursive-edit is working from the recursive
debugger entry.  So the bug report #8548 can be closed.

Cheers,
Uday

Message #17 received at 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 8549 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8549: 23.3;
 Undocumented setting of eval-expression-debug-on-error
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:29:41 -0400

tags 8549 fixed
close 8549
quit

Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy <at> cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> Ok, Checked the development branch as of 2011-06-13.  The variable
> `eval-expression-debug-on-error' continues to get set.

I don't understand what is meant by the variable getting "set".  Its
default value is t, and has been since it was first introduced in
b49df39d (1999-09-14 "(eval-expression-print-level): New variable....").

It was added to the manual in 66249842 (2011-07-15 "(Using Debugger):
Mention @code{eval-expression-debug-on-error}") which says it fixes this
bug, so I'm closing it now.

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