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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Debugging Emacs
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:48:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPiWUYqfM+qSZ+SeOg+Xq1BQtOff0q8AYV1_CL13Pk3dZkSa=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3jbicg0.fsf@russet.org.uk>

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> wrote:
> I debugged Emacs core the other day for the first time. As I have no
> experience with C, GDB or any of the Emacs tooling, I found this an
> uphill struggle, so I have written up a short "how-to-debug" Emacs file.
>
> It starts from a slightly earlier place than the current DEBUG file, and
> is a step by step guide. The existing DEBUG file, I found pretty dense.

Have you considered finding a place for this somewhere in the
"Programming Emacs in Lisp and C" section of the Emacs Wiki at
http://www.emacswiki.org/#toc6 ?



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-27 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-27 17:23 Debugging Emacs Phillip Lord
2015-11-27 17:48 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2015-11-27 21:53   ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-28  7:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 18:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 22:05   ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-28  7:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 19:39       ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-28 20:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-28 21:35           ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-29 18:13             ` Stephen Leake
2015-11-29 19:25               ` John Wiegley
2015-11-29 21:26                 ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-29 19:46               ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-30 13:33             ` Nicolas Richard
2015-12-05 10:55               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07  9:51                 ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-07 16:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-07 18:18                     ` Stephen Leake
2015-12-07 18:30                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-10 22:36                     ` Phillip Lord
2015-12-11  7:39                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-11 15:47                         ` Phillip Lord
2015-11-28  8:41     ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-11-28  9:47       ` Eli Zaretskii

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