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From: "Paulo J. Matos" <pocmatos@gmail.com>
To: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Debugging new major mode
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:48:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245192511.15893.0.camel@drserver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlcb6c77.wl%xma@gnu.org>

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 23:44 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:07:33 +0100,
> Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> > 
> > I have implemented a new major mode, and I can now load it. I have a
> > file that uses my new mode and the new mode source code in diff
> > buffers. I use load-file to load the new mode, however, I am not so
> > sure this is the best method to do it. What is the best method to
> > debug the new mode?
> 
> What do you mean by "debugging" ? What you can do is unit-tests
> and see if it behaves the way you thought it should have
> been. You can also try all commands/functions of your mode in a
> -Q launched session.
> 

Thanks! :) That seems to be what I want!

> Xavier





      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-13 14:07 Debugging new major mode Paulo J. Matos
2009-06-13 21:44 ` Xavier Maillard
2009-06-16 22:48   ` Paulo J. Matos [this message]

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