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26.0.50; No backtrace when emacsclient --eval fails

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Message #11 received at 24616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 24616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24616: 26.0.50; No backtrace when emacsclient --eval fails
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:52:29 -0400

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Start the server.
> Then run e.g.
>
> $ emacsclient --eval '(progn (defun f () (error "foo")) (setq debug-on-error t) (f))'
> *ERROR*: foo
>
> Note that there's no backtrace. This makes it almost impossible to debug
> problems when using emacsclient.
>

Just a note: you can get a backtrace by setting debug-on-signal
instead of debug-on-error.

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