bug#37540: [PATCH] Wishlist: Allow edebug-specs to signal arbitrary error strings on syntax errors in macros.

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:30:34 +0000
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>> 
>> The following patch implements an &error mechanism in edebug.el, and
>> illustrates its use in the case which motivated it.
>> 
>> Any objections to committing this patch (together with the needed
>> amendments to documentation and NEWS)?
>
> Please wait with such changes until the emacs-27 branch is cut (which
> should happen soon, I hope).  I don't want to risk destabilizing Emacs
> 27 with potentially risky low-level changes, more than it already is.

Now that the emacs-27 branch is cut, perhaps it is time to look into
this again?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas