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authorNicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>2015-06-05 18:54:33 +0200
committerNicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>2015-06-06 08:34:46 +0200
commitbb2c6d2eb51a7efc200691181ea7b6f17f8f383c (patch)
treeba5d954eb67b12619cf694e26e7a4f8b527435d7
parentb0c0b96ee3525f65554e61d1c74b8325fe9f53cd (diff)
* etc/DEBUG: Mention 'maybe_call_debugger'
-rw-r--r--etc/DEBUG5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG
index 51a3736855..cc39e42fdf 100644
--- a/etc/DEBUG
+++ b/etc/DEBUG
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ kick in, provided that you run under GDB.
** Getting control to the debugger
-`Fsignal' is a very useful place to put a breakpoint in.
-All Lisp errors go through there.
+`Fsignal' is a very useful place to put a breakpoint in. All Lisp
+errors go through there. If you are only interested in errors that
+would fire the debugger, breaking at `maybe_call_debugger' is useful.
It is useful, when debugging, to have a guaranteed way to return to
the debugger at any time. When using X, this is easy: type C-z at the