is this in gdb's  debug mode ,which is used to get  the  debugged  process's  local  varible value? 




At 2012-10-10 17:16:06,"Tassilo Horn" <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li> writes:
>
>> At Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:24:35 -0700 (PDT),
>> drain wrote:
>>> Is there a function that prompts the user in the mini-buffer, matches the
>>> string input with a local variable name, and then returns the variable? 
>>
>> You can use something like
>>
>>     (defun foo (var)
>>       (interactive "v")
>>       (message "%S" (symbol-value var)))
>>
>> See the help page for `interactive' for more info.
>
>Or simply do `C-h v <variable-name> RET' which shows the documentation
>and the current value of that variable.
>
>Bye,
>Tassilo
>
>