Re: Any downside to condition-case-unless-debug?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > I feel like a lot of my debugging recently has involved various ways of
>   > working around `condition-case' and its swallowing of useful error
>   > information. Is there any reason not to prefer
>   > `condition-case-unless-debug' in new code?
>
> If we wanted to have that behavior by default, then rather than change
> lots of code gradually, how about making a new global flag
> `debug-on-caught-error' which, when t, would make errors invoke
> the debugger when they are about to be caught?
>
> If `debug-on-caught-error' is `debug-on-error', then the value of
> `debug-on-error' would control the behavior of errors about to be
> caught.

Would this help work around the ERT interference that Glenn referenced?