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M-: uses a wrong value of debug-on-error when it is nil.

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: 67196-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: acm <at> muc.de
Subject: Re: M-: uses a wrong value of debug-on-error when it is nil.
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:33:41 +0000

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 13:48:40 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Emacs.

> On the master branch (and probably any recent Emacs):

> (i) emacs -Q
> (ii) C-h v debug-on-error RET
> (iii) M-: debug-on-error RET

> From (ii) it will be seen that debug-on-error's value is nil.
> (iii) wrongly reports that its value is t.  This is a bug.

> #########################################################################

> What is happening here is that eval-expression binds debug-on-error to
> an uninterned symbol called "t", so that d-o-e will be set to non-nil
> for the evaluation of the coming form.

> This has the unwanted side effect of ignoring the actual value of d-o-e
> in forms which use it.  For example, if the variable is set to a list of
> error symbols, this value gets ignored on evaluating a form with M-:.

This bug was fixed by the following commit:

commit 7959a63ce258c90eb3c7947ab3318c5531eb37d9
Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Date:   Mon Dec 18 23:47:56 2023 -0500

    (eval-expression): Fix bug#67196

by using the newly written handler-bind.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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