Re: Why timers are now catching errors

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> This change will break many commands using timers.
>> You should read "annoy", it break nothing, just send repeatedly an
>> annoying message. (See eldoc-eval.el)
>
> Ah, so the problem is the `message' call?
> If so, that's easy to fix: wrap the timer's code inside its own
> condition-case to catch the error before timer.el does.
Of course I can do that. (Already done locally)

>> But maybe you are intoducing (temporarily) such code to improve some
>> timer functions running in emacs ? 
>
> It's definitely not temporary, no.  Silently dropping such errors makes
> tracking down bugs much harder, so it's here to stay.
Hmm, I see, what about sending such messages only when `debug-on-error' is
enabled ?

>
>         Stefan

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