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From: "ian.tegebo" <ian.tegebo@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: better error messages in my *Messages* buffer?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:44:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69d783d3-573b-4f13-bcc8-461b803fbf28@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.17570.1395256643.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Other people have suggested reading the manual regarding debugging and Edebug in particular; I'd agree with that.  However, *Messages* really should report from where and when a message arrived.  I used the following as a basis for my own tweaking:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DebugMessages

By itself, I think the above hack is a bit too noisy.  In particular, it interrupts completion in the minibuffer.

On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:17:05 PM UTC-7, kleine...@gmx.at wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
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> 
> learing elisp is fun, but debugging isn't for me at the moment.
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> >From ruby and from python I'm spoiled with additional info like
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> Error X in file Y line Z
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> but my *Messages* buffer just tells me:
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> error in process filter: Wrong type argument: listp, [...] 
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> What do you do in that case to find out which line of your code creates
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> that error?
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> Thanks,
> 
> Martin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.17570.1395256643.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-03-19 19:25 ` better error messages in my *Messages* buffer? Joost Kremers
2014-03-20  2:04   ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-03-20 16:44 ` ian.tegebo [this message]
2014-03-19 19:17 kleinerdrache

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