Subject: Re: bug#12957: 24.2.50; unable to get elisp backtrace with (setq debug-on-error t)

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:00:10 -0500

> No, even if I set debug-on-error to t explicitly, I see the
> problem. My guess (baseless though) was some package that I load from
> .emacs is fooling debugger.

Actually now that I think about it, the way recursive debugging is
prevented is not by setting debug-on-error to nil (as it used to be) but
by setting inhibit-debugger to t (this is a fairly recent change), so
try (setq inhibit-debugger nil).

        Stefan