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Virgil Smith wrote:
> Will _ALERT work for your purposes?

It would, if there was one in Lua 5.0. I found nothing about it in
the docs. If I am not mistaken there used to be an _ALERT in Lua 3.2...

Regards,
Mark

> I am using Lua 5.0 in a library and would like to capture error
> messages. I used to do that with the function _ERRORMESSAGE in Lua
> 4.0, but it has been removed...
> 
> Is there any way to capture it other than capturing it when control
> returns to C? I would like to show the user the error message myself.
> 
> The compat.lua only references _ERRORMESSAGE in a comment but there
> is nothing else there about it.


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