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[Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Bad reporting of errors inside event handlers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/525449
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Status in Mudlet the MUD client: Confirmed

Bug description:
When you get an error that happens inside a function that is called by an event handler, Mudlet will:

a) Not report it to the debug console at all, instead reporting it to stdout
b) Not report the exact location of the error, but just use the event handler name 

ie for 
function abc()
	a = a + 1
end

That is attached to "some event" event, Mudlet will print the following to stdout and not to debug:
LUA: ERROR running script  "abc"  ERROR: Lua error:some event 

The proper error is also:
attempt to perform arithmetic on global 'a' (a nil value) but not the event handler name like it does.