Re: Why timers are now catching errors

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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.

> 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.


        Stefan