Re: Feature request: A way to get a traceback to a buffer or a string

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     In some situations you may know that a function call will cause an 
>     error. You may then want to get a traceback from this particular call, 
>     without user intervention.
>
> Can you explain why this is useful?  I do not see the usefulness.

I have used this in fontification routines to get a backtrace. At least 
on w32 you need to do something like this when you want a backtrace when 
an error happens in a timer.

Is that not the case in Emacs on GNU/Linux?