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Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value. |
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Mon, 21 May 2018 19:04:49 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
Hello, Eli.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 20:58:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:10:19 +0000
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> > In the upcoming Emacs 26.1, I'm in edebug. In the program I'm
> > debugging, there is something nasty in the variable
> > `syntax-propertize-function', and I need to find out what.
> > So I do "e" and type in that variable name.
> > What comes back is this:
> > #f(compiled-function (start end) #<bytecode 0x191eb39>)
> > . This is thoroughly unhelpful. In previous versions of Emacs, this
> > would have printed out the function in enough detail to give variable
> > names, function names, etc., which could be used to search through the
> > Emacs source with.
> Did you try setting cl-print-compiled to the value 'disassemble' or
> 'static'?
Er, no. :-) I'm trying to simulate an ordinary user at the moment. Now
that I know what to look for, I found an entry in NEWS.
[ Comments about this entry withheld, after seeing you asked Noam for
another entry in NEWS. ]
Thanks for acting on this so rapidly.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/05/21
- Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/21
- Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value.,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value., Stefan Monnier, 2018/05/21
- Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value., Noam Postavsky, 2018/05/21
- Message's text-properties in *Messages* (was: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value), Stefan Monnier, 2018/05/23
- RE: Message's text-properties in *Messages* (was: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value), Drew Adams, 2018/05/23
- Re: Message's text-properties in *Messages*, Stefan Monnier, 2018/05/23
- Re: Message's text-properties in *Messages*, John Wiegley, 2018/05/25
- Re: Message's text-properties in *Messages*, Stefan Monnier, 2018/05/26
- Re: Message's text-properties in *Messages*, Amin Bandali, 2018/05/26