Subject: Re: bug#1077: 23.0.60; x-create-frame: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:21:59 +0200

> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:58:59 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
>  >> I still don't get it why a condition_case can't handle such an error.
>  >
>  > Because part of the recipe is to set debug-on-error non-nil?
> 
> Probably.  But what is `debug-on-error' good for when Emacs crashes?

Absolutely nothing.  However, `debug-on-error' doesn't know that Emacs
is about to crash, so it doesn't know that it's no good.