Don't activate RuntimeError breakpoint by default #634
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I can understand the default is designed as a convenient way to stop users' programs when an error happens. But because exception breakpoints stop when the errors are raised and don't care about if they'd be rescued, they can stop at unnecessary places. For example, the user's Rails app already handles the exception with a
rescue_fromcallback, but he/she will still be stopped regardless.I actually got multiple complaints/questions about it recently at Shopify as we're pushing for debugger adoption:
From another user:
To cancel it, they need to find and untick the breakpoint at bottom-left corner, which is not super obvious:
So I think it's best to not activate it by default, but tell users to opt-in this convenient breakpoint if they're debugging an exception-related issue in a document (which we can work on in the future).