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Re: immediate abort at error messages

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• Subject: [mg55782] Re: [mg55764] immediate abort at error messages
• From: Igor Antonio <igora at wolf-ram.com>
• Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 03:11:11 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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Marcus Stollsteimer wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> I recently learned that there is a way to immediately abort
> when an error occurs in the middle of a cell, so that Mathematica
> does not try to evaluate the subsequent expressions with
> possibly bad input:
> 
> with
> 
>   $Messages:=Abort[]
> 
> (see message <2430df44.0411240157.4d06479a at posting.google.com>)
> 
> but now, when an error occurs, Mathematica aborts without any message...
> it would be useful to still see the error message,
> is there a way to do this (display message, then abort)?
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcus
> 

Marcus,

The reason you no longer see error messages is because $Messages defines 
  where to send output and with the code above you are supressing the 
stdout.  Try using:

$Messages := (OutputStream["stdout", 1]; Abort[];)
-- 


Igor Antonio
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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