From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Learn, use, and debug AWK in Emacs.
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:23:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edkhucbp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POKu315+Utazqg3evpArZW7uA=ijwCw=G3dxW7s5FWyLig@mail.gmail.com> (message from Hongyi Zhao on Sat, 5 Aug 2023 16:14:47 +0800)
> From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 16:14:47 +0800
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 3:53 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > For debugging, you can use the built-in debugger of GNU Awk (Gawk).
> > You can run Gawk from shell or Eshell buffers inside Emacs.
>
> My main concern is the following features:
>
> Real-time display the values of variables and test snippets
> conveniently, and so on.
I don't think I understand what you mean by "real-time display" here,
but in any case you cannot have more that the Gawk built-in debugger
offers. See the node "Debugger" in the Gawk manual for the details.
In particular, its section "Sample Debugging Session" can serve as a
tutorial and guided tour of the Gawk debugging capabilities in action.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-05 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-05 7:23 Learn, use, and debug AWK in Emacs Hongyi Zhao
2023-08-05 7:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-05 8:14 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-08-05 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-08-06 13:13 ` tpeplt
2023-08-06 13:30 ` Hongyi Zhao
2023-08-06 22:12 ` Emanuel Berg
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