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26.0.50; No backtrace when emacsclient --eval fails

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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, 04 Oct 2016 20:15:51 +0300

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:30:15 +0200
> 
> 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.

See this discussion:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-08/msg00122.html

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