Subject: bug#24618: 26.0.50; `condition-case' doesn't allow catching all signals

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:06:03 -0400

tags 24618 fixed
close 24618 27.1
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Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]> writes:

> Consider the following code:
>
> (condition-case err
>     (signal 'does-not-exist '(1 2))
>   (error (print err)))
>
> The signal is not caught by condition-case because it has no error
> conditions.  This makes it impossible to reliably catch all signals
> (without abusing the debugger).  I propose that an error condition of
> 't' in `condition-case' should be interpreted as 'all conditions'.

Done in master.

[1: 425c281164]: 2018-09-04 18:50:15 -0400
  Allow t as a catch-all condition-case handler (Bug#24618)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=425c2811641a6b8ec4549cad5f6bd15a46bc95d5