From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, 38173@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:28:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnhwsmii.5.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnhxyjxp.8.fsf@jidanni.org>
(OK, it's like telling the user your current balance is $0, your original
balance is $1000, and throwing out even the final record of what happened.
At least don't tell him his original balance then.)
Gasp, that var-watcher stuff is so complicated.
How about:
At the beginning of the user's .emacs:
(setq tracked-variables LIST_OF_TRACKED_VARIABLES)
And then if he later does describe-variable on one of them,
he gets all the places and values that variable was set.
The tracked-variables docsrting should warn: this is for debugging use
only, and adds a burden...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 1:14 bug#38173: describe-variable: Also tell user *where* variable was changed 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-12 2:28 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2019-11-12 2:45 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-12 23:10 ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-12 23:28 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2019-11-13 9:19 ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-13 15:06 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-11-13 22:56 ` Phil Sainty
2019-11-14 6:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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