From: Jeremy Bryant via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com>
Cc: 71761@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71761: 29.3; Emacs-Lisp menu display is incorrect during Edebug
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:10:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyo1hrb6.fsf@jeremybryant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed8m9j4h.fsf@gmail.com> (tpeplt@gmail.com's message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:32:46 -0400")
tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> writes:
> Emacs Maintainers,
>
> When a function has been instrumented for debugging with
> Edebug and the debugger has entered the function for
> stepping, the menu item ‘Emacs-Lisp’ does not list the
> correct entries (which should be the same entries as they
> were before entering the debugger) in its drop-down menu.
> Instead, the drop-down menu lists two entries ‘Emacs-Lisp’
> and ‘Emacs-Lisp’. These two entries, in turn, are sub-menus
> whose contents are the correct menu items for ‘Emacs-Lisp’,
> namely, ‘Indent Line’, ‘Indent Region’, and so on.
>
> After exiting the debugger, the menu items for the
> ‘Emacs-Lisp’ menu item are displayed correctly.
>
> Recipe for reproducing this menu-display error:
>
> 1. Start Emacs from a shell prompt with: $ emacs -Q
>
> 2. Create a new Emacs Lisp file with C-x C-f, say,
> new-file.el
>
> 3. Create a simple Emacs Lisp function:
>
> (defun new-fun (name)
> (if name 'some-name nil))
>
> 4. Instrument the function with C-u M-C-x.
>
> 5. Check the menu listing for ‘Emacs-Lisp’ to confirm
> that it is correct.
>
> 6. Invoke the instrumented function to enter Edebug:
>
> (new-fun t)
>
> 7. Check the menu listing for ‘Emacs-Lisp’ to see that it
> now lists (only) two identical ‘Emacs-Lisp’ entries,
> each of which is a sub-menu. The sub-menus will list
> the correct entries for ‘Emacs-Lisp’.
>
> 8. In the debugger, type ‘c’ to continue to complete the
> debugging session. Once it has exited, check the
> ‘Emacs-Lisp’ menu item to confirm that it now has the
> correct entries. Each time that Edebug is entered,
> the ‘Emacs-Lisp’ menu’s entries are two incorrect
> sub-menus.
>
> Please let me know if anything above is unclear or if you are unable
> to reproduce this problem.
The following may help to narrow down the problem:
In Emacs 29.4:
I am able to reproduce the bug in Emacs GUI
But in Emacs TTY (emacs -nw), the problem seems absent, the menu bar
appears correct.
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2024-06-24 20:32 bug#71761: 29.3; Emacs-Lisp menu display is incorrect during Edebug tpeplt
2024-06-28 18:10 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-06-29 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-29 12:20 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-29 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-29 22:04 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-30 4:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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