Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces

[Mattias Engdegård]

14 juli 2023 kl. 10.00 skrev Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>:

> It would be nice if the backtraces used `pp' instead of dumb truncation.
> Though would make things much, much more readable.

Not necessarily as it also means that uninteresting data takes up much more 
space.
Better have a way to expand and pretty-print individual stack frames on demand 
in the backtrace buffer.

> Of course, the `condition-case' created by ERT will still be an issue.

Yes, and that was probably what really caused Alan's troubles. We could do 
something about that.