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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el index dc23b071f0d..5411088189d 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/debug.el @@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ where CAUSE can be: ;;;###autoload (defun debug (&rest args) "Enter debugger. \\<debugger-mode-map>`\\[debugger-continue]' returns from the debugger. + +In interactive sessions, this switches to a backtrace buffer and shows +the Lisp backtrace of function calls there. In batch mode (more accurately, +when `noninteractive' is non-nil), it shows the Lisp backtrace on the +standard error stream (unless `backtrace-on-error-noninteractive' is nil), +and then kills Emacs, causing it to exit with a negative exit code. + Arguments are mainly for use when this is called from the internals of the evaluator. |