error-error

[Andreas Roehler]

\C-h i m Elisp m Errors

"    These examples show typical uses of `error':"

Evaluation of the given example

          (error "That is an error -- try something else")

results in:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "That is an error -- try something
else")
  signal(error ("That is an error -- try something else"))
  error("That is an error -- try something else")
  eval((error "That is an error -- try something else"))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

--

Asking the value of debug-on-error
: is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is nil


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2006-02-23 on kiste
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000
Important settings:
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  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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