bug#981: marked as done (23.0.60; doc of debug-on-error)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #981,
regarding 23.0.60; doc of debug-on-error
to be marked as done.

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> 23.0.60; doc of debug-on-error
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> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:59:11 -0700
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> `debug-on-error' does not control what happens during Lisp rexpression
> evaluation. But you cannot know this by looking at only the doc of
> `debug-on-error'.  For example, evaluate this using either `C-x C-e'
> in buffer *scratch or via `M-:':
> (unwind-protect jjjjjjj (message "XXXX"))
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> `eval-expression-debug-on-error' is what controls this behavior. In
> the Elisp manual, the doc for `debug-on-error' is on the same page as
> the doc for `eval-expression-debug-on-error', but even so, a reader
> might read only the `debug-on-error' part if that's what s?he is
> looking up.
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> The `debug-on-error' description in the manual needs a "see below"
> mention of `eval-expression-debug-on-error' and of the fact that
> `debug-on-error' alone does not control what happens during such sexp
> evaluation.
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> The `debug-on-error' doc string, likewise, needs to mention this and
> cross-reference the doc string for `eval-expression-debug-on-error'.
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> I think what happened was that when `eval-expression-debug-on-error'
> was introduced in Emacs 21 this doc dependency was overlooked - the
> doc for `eval-expression-debug-on-error' was added but the doc for
> `debug-on-error' was not updated accordingly. In Emacs 20,
> `debug-on-error' is all there is, so its doc is complete and
> sufficient.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2008-09-03 on LENNART-69DE564
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/g/include
> -fno-crossjumping'
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> e-e-d-o-e now mentioned in both places.
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