bug#12068: 24.1; customizing debug-on-error to nil disables --debug-init

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>> What do you think people will do when they've set it to non-nil and then
>> they get annoyed that they're always dropping into the debugger and
>> really want to turn it back off so it sticks?
>
> I recommend "erase customization" rather than toggling.
>
> I don't think it's worth implementing special handling for this
> scenario, so I have marked this as "wontfix".

Does it even make sense to have `debug-on-error' be a `defcustom'?
I don't think anybody would actually customize `debug-on-error' to `nil'
(or anything else, for that matter) on purpose, would they?

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