Usually, exceptions that occur during debugging sessions are displayed
only in trace mode and for invocation boxes for
predicates with spypoints on them, and not during skips.
However, it is sometimes useful to make exceptions trap to the debugger
at the earliest opportunity instead. The hook predicate
user:error_exception/1 provides such a possibility:
error_exception(+Exception) hookuser:error_exception(+Exception)
This predicate is called at all Exception ports. If it succeeds, the debugger enters trace mode and prints an exception port message. Otherwise, the debugger mode is unchanged and a message is printed only in trace mode or if a spypoint is reached, and not during skips.
Note that this hook takes effect when the debugger arrives at an Exception port. For this to happen, procedure boxes have to be built, e.g. by running (the relevant parts of) the program in debug mode.