From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15101@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15101: 24.3.50; debugger-eval-expression broken
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:16:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24naqswmd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsiybf23y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:45:52 -0400")
On Thu, Aug 15 2013, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Start Emacs with: emacs -Q --eval '(let ((foo 123)) (debug))'
>> Then press e. Enter foo to evaluate the local variable foo. But it
>> doesn't work; it only generates the error:
>> debugger-eval-expression: Symbol's value as variable is void: foo
>> This used to work fine in previous versions.
>
> Indeed, this is a change that will trip up users. Here's what's
> happening: `e' will now run the code in the context in which the "code
> on the current line" was run.
>
> This refinement can be useful for dynamically bound variables, but was
> mostly added for lexically bound variables, where it's indispensable.
>
> So the above recipe works again if you use C-p before `e' so that point
> is now on the top-most line, which stands for "in the context that
> called `debug'".
>
> I think a good fix is to change debug.el so that point starts on the
> first line of the *Debugger* buffer rather than on the second.
What does "context" mean? Intuitively I would say that in the second
line, ie. the one that looks like "(let ((foo 123)) (debug))", foo is
part of the context.
Compare this with:
(let ((foo 1))
(let ((bar 2))
(let ((baz 3))
(debug))))
It seems to me that a better fix would be to adjust linenumber->context
mapping by one.
Helmut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-15 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-15 11:39 bug#15101: 24.3.50; debugger-eval-expression broken Helmut Eller
2013-08-15 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-15 15:06 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-15 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-15 17:03 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-15 17:16 ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2013-08-15 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-16 5:27 ` Helmut Eller
2013-08-16 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-16 17:03 ` Helmut Eller
2013-08-15 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-15 17:47 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-15 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-15 21:12 ` Drew Adams
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