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)
But maybe you are intoducing (temporarily) such code to improve some
timer functions running in emacs ? 

> Which part of the change?

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(condition-case-unless-debug err
    ;; Timer functions should not change the current buffer.
    ;; If they do, all kinds of nasty surprises can happen,
    ;; and it can be hellish to track down their source.
    (save-current-buffer
      (apply (timer--function timer) (timer--args timer)))
  (error (message "Error in timer: %S" err)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

was

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(condition-case nil [...] (error nil))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


>> This happen in `timer-event-handler', hope this will not be merged in
>> 24.3...
>
> No, it's only for trunk,
Good, thanks.


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