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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: debugging elisp ?
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 11:44:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a84evtaj.fsf@jane> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E38B67AA-64E0-4995-A29D-E353AE143FEB@gmail.com>


On 2017-07-09, at 10:03, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to run a given package/file step by step and see how variables etc. evolve ?
>
> Practically speaking I'm running package.el and I'd like to have a separate buffer where I see how things move under the hood.

That's exactly what Edebug does!

Evaluate this: (info "(elisp) Edebug") and have fun.

Hth,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski



  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-09  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-09  8:03 debugging elisp ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-09  9:44 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2017-07-09 10:49   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-09 11:48     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-07-09 11:58       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-09 11:59       ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-07-09 12:13         ` Noam Postavsky
2017-07-09 13:54         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-10 13:31           ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-11  1:06             ` Jean-Christophe Helary

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