Subject: bug#37540: [PATCH] Wishlist: Allow edebug-specs to signal arbitrary error strings on syntax errors in macros.

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:34:16 +0000

Hello, Eli.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 16:42:47 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:30:34 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>

> > The following patch implements an &error mechanism in edebug.el, and
> > illustrates its use in the case which motivated it.

> > Any objections to committing this patch (together with the needed
> > amendments to documentation and NEWS)?

> Please wait with such changes until the emacs-27 branch is cut (which
> should happen soon, I hope).  I don't want to risk destabilizing Emacs
> 27 with potentially risky low-level changes, more than it already is.

OK.  Presumably when the emacs-27 branch comes into existence, the
emacs-26 branch will be retired from active service.

> TIA

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).