Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:


ielm has been particularly useful when developing some of the more
esoteric parts of Emacspeak:-)
> "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:
>
>> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> In addition to all you say below re IELM, the nugget of gold that makes
>> it invaluable is its ability to  set the eval context buffer while
>> remaining in the ielm buffer, see command bound to C-c b.
>
> Hey, that's great! I'd also been on the fence about the value of IELM
> over the plain old *scratch* buffer, and that's a real advantage.
>
> To muddy the waters further, there's also the "emacs inspector"[1] which
> provides another way of looking at objects and symbols. It doesn't help
> with the original query about watching values change during execution,
> though.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/mmontone/emacs-inspector
>

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