From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:18:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6q6j1gk.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04C7EE32-F6C4-4310-A8B8-FEFF45C6ACB7@gmail.com>
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> 14 juli 2023 kl. 10.00 skrev Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>:
>
>> It would be nice if the backtraces used `pp' instead of dumb truncation.
>> Though would make things much, much more readable.
>
> Not necessarily as it also means that uninteresting data takes up much more space.
> Better have a way to expand and pretty-print individual stack frames on demand in the backtrace buffer.
I am a bit confused.
Aren't we talking about terminal output?
>> Of course, the `condition-case' created by ERT will still be an issue.
>
> Yes, and that was probably what really caused Alan's troubles. We could do something about that.
I think that this problem was left unresolved due to lack of ideas:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50629
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-14 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-13 13:35 The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-13 14:17 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-07-13 14:57 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 8:00 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-14 9:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 9:18 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-14 10:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 10:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 10:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 12:35 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 13:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 18:06 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 20:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-17 15:52 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-17 19:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-17 19:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-18 11:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-18 11:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-18 13:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-19 8:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-19 10:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-19 15:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 1:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
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