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improve debug_on_error behavior with print_usage (bug #55178) * print_usage.m: Set debug_on_error to false locally before emitting final error.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:38:12 -0500
parents cf434923aec0
children f816a8c44924
files scripts/help/print_usage.m
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/scripts/help/print_usage.m	Thu Nov 04 19:39:56 2021 +0100
+++ b/scripts/help/print_usage.m	Wed Nov 10 10:38:12 2021 -0500
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@
     warning ("print_usage: raw Texinfo source of help text follows...\n");
   endif
 
+  ## We don't want to start the debugger here if debug_on_error is true
+  ## so we set it to false and make the change local.  Then
+  ## debug_on_error will be reset to true after this function returns
+  ## and the debugger will start at the location of the call to
+  ## print_usage.
+  debug_on_error (false, "local");
+
   if (at_toplev)
     error ("Octave:invalid-fun-call",
            "Invalid call to %s.  Correct usage is:\n\n%s\n%s",