From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value. Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 20:52:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180521171019.GA5750@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526950260 6246 195.159.176.226 (22 May 2018 00:51:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 00:51:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs developers To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 02:50:56 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKvVw-0001Wj-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 02:50:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53056 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKvY1-0006jT-Uc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKvXw-0006jM-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:53:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKvXt-0004Rm-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:53:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:50972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKvXt-0004Qv-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w4M0qrhD012215; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D86C16A32D; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:52:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Noam Postavsky's message of "Mon, 21 May 2018 17:24:31 -0400") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6290=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6290> : inlines <6646> : streams <1787427> : uri <2645153> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225533 Archived-At: > The output in the minibuffer looks clickable (i.e., underlined and > blue), but it isn't, not sure why. The problem is that as soon as you try to click, the *Echo area* buffer (which contains the message) is replaced with the *Minibuf* buffer. I don't know why we have this weird system of constant buffer-switching in the mini-window, but I'd be surprised if it's easy to change it. Stefan