From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:35:44 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: * etc/NEWS: Mention timer error reporting.
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* etc/NEWS: Mention timer error reporting.
Ref: http://debbugs.gnu.org/18444#8
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 70dfc504a0b..e8bcdb50b9d 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1124,6 +1124,11 @@ and can be accessed by calling the `coding-system-type' function.)
 
 *** `with-demoted-errors' takes an additional argument `format'.
 
+*** Errors from timer functions are no longer silently discarded,
+but are reported as messages.  So you may see "Error running timer"
+messages from code that was failing silently till now.  Set
+`debug-on-error' non-nil to get a real error and a backtrace.
+
 ** Faces
 
 *** Face specs set via Custom themes now replace the `defface' spec