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Subject: Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when
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Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 18:23:42 +0000
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Hello, Noam.

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 13:47:53 -0400, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> > So, can I get edebug to print out the contents of a variable containing
> > a function?  If so how?

> (fset 'edebug-prin1-to-string #'prin1-to-string) ; gives Emacs 25 behaviour

Thanks, this works!

> Or

> (setq cl-print-compiled 'static) ; shows constants array, but not bytecode

I'll need to try that, sometime.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).