From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:15:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ip3m4fke.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17B7398A-A42E-427B-98F4-F644E5F6359A@manchester.ac.uk>
> From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34:22 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > "M-x load-library RET files.el RET", then instrument
> > normal-backup-enable-predicate with Edebug, edit file in work/, type
> > "C-x C-s", and step through that function to see what's going on.
>
> Hi Eli and emac-ers
>
> Sorry but I've no idea what Edebug is nor the instrumentation steps?
> NB I'm using the "-nw" version of emacs on a Mac
Edebug works in the -nw session as well.
Edebug is described in the ELisp manual.
After "M-x load-library" as above, visit the file file.el, search for
the normal-backup-enable-predicate function, and with cursor somewhere
inside that function, type "M-x edebug-defun RET". Then edit the file
in your work/ directory and save it. When you save it, the debugger
will kick in, and you can step through normal-backup-enable-predicate
by pressing SPC. Watch the control flow and the results of evaluating
each Lisp form that are displayed in the echo area.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-16 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 12:29 backup files on mounted filesystems Michael Bane
2013-04-12 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 16:12 ` Michael Bane
2013-04-12 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <6DED36A28A9D17448D476BCDD077928E012F6D5EA2@MBXP07.ds.man.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-04-16 14:34 ` Michael Bane
2013-04-16 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-12 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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