Re: Learning Edebug

[Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>]

Lewis Creary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm trying to learn how to use the Emacs lisp function Edebug, 
> but so far am not having any success.  The documentation says 
> that I need to "instrument" the function that I want to debug, 
> and I'm even having trouble with that.
> I've been programming in Emacs Lisp for over a decade, and have 
> always found that print statements were sufficient for debugging 
> my programs.

I think the other replies have good practical info, but just in 
case some conceptual info is useful, instrumenting code is 
basically what you've been doing with print statements. When 
edebug instruments the code and inserts its own debugging 
snippets, you can execute the code normally and the 
instrumentation that edebug inserted will call the edebug 
functionality.

The built-in lisp debugger works the "other" way; it affects the 
evaluation machinery rather than the code being evaluated.

Regards,

        - Joel