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Re: repl debugger impressions
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: repl debugger impressions |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:10:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Mike,
Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
> -> Step into #<frame a1b2c3d4 #<procedure ...
>
> IMHO, Unless that hex number can be decoded via some command, it
> is just noise.
It’s not just noise because it allows you to distinguish, e.g., between
same-named procedures. As for frame addresses, it allows you to know
whether you’re actually going down the stack or not, for instance (GDB
gives that info too.) So I find it quite valuable.
Now, perhaps it could be formatted in a more human-readable way?
> Also, there is one feature that would make the debugger much
> more valuable to me. If, after every ",step" or ",next", it
> printed out the filename:line:column, that'd be helpful. I
> hacked on it a little, and I think it would be easy to do.
+1
> And, if that filename:line:column were delimited by something
> unique, for example curly braces, it would then be easy enough
> to write an Emacs minor mode to pick up that filename:line:column
> from the Geiser or Shell window and automatically center another
> window on that file at that source line, the way the GDB GUD mode
> does.
+1
I think we need input from the Gesier Meister here. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.