On 17/06/17 21:20, Phil Sainty wrote: > inconsistent with `trace--read-args' which uses a prefix arg to prompt > the user for the trace buffer and a context expression -- which I now > realise is behaviour that my commands should incorporate as well. I've implemented this change, and attached the current WIP patch. In the process I noticed that the existing behaviour of trace--read-args was quite unfriendly if you wanted to set a trace buffer but had no need of a context expression -- typing RET at the context expression prompt triggered an "End of file during parsing" error, as that input string is processed by `read-from-string'. I've changed that code to treat an empty input as "nil" (which is read to `nil'), and to ignore `nil' context expressions entirely (as opposed to printing their evaluated value as "[nil]" in the trace buffer). -Phil