From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: change in treating errors
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:28:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190415222808.49978837@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMHZ1dY-wPRzCLPBRiQWFKP-ouF21YOjUovdHC8veEdL0UdgCg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:11:17 -0400
Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ConTeXt used to recover better from errors. Consider the following file:
>
> =============
> \xyz
> \abc
>
> \starttext
> HELLO
> \stoptext
> =============
>
> Running ConTeXt ver: 2019.03.21 21:39 MKIV beta fmt: 2019.3.26 int:
> english/english would catch both "Undefined control sequence" errors before
> exiting with the message "mtx-context | fatal error: return code:
> 256". (I either press enter to move to the next error, or I use the
> --nonstopmode option.)
>
> Now with ConTeXt ver: 2019.04.13 17:01 MKIV beta fmt: 2019.4.15 int:
> english/english, even when I do not supply the --nonstopmode option,
> ConTeXt exits abnormally with the same error message right after
> discovering the first undefined control sequence. The old "?" TeX prompt
> allowing once to fix the misspellings, etc. does not appear at all.
>
> Has some defaults changed? Is it possible to get the old behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> ~MHB
I much prefer the new behavior, for the previous prompt was pretty useless and there was little point going on without correcting an earlier error. Furthermore, the model would often leave a furtive process running in the background following a keyboard interrupt (especially on Mac OSX). The new process does not do this.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-16 3:11 Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2019-04-16 4:28 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2019-04-16 7:07 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-16 9:51 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2019-04-16 11:49 ` Hans Hagen
2019-04-16 15:04 ` Alan Braslau
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