From ab10393e755d0e263760672e0af60287fe472bb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn Morris Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:35:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Mention timer error reporting. Ref: http://debbugs.gnu.org/18444#8 --- etc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 70dfc504a0b..e8bcdb50b9d 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -1124,6 +1124,11 @@ and can be accessed by calling the `coding-system-type' function.) *** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'. +*** Errors from timer functions are no longer silently discarded, +but are reported as messages. So you may see "Error running timer" +messages from code that was failing silently till now. Set +`debug-on-error' non-nil to get a real error and a backtrace. + ** Faces *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec -- 2.11.4.GIT