From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:04:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2nos8g8.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7fjoej39.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On 2016-01-05, at 05:41, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> OK, so try C-u C-M-x with this form:
>
>> (eval
>> '(progn
>> (message "foo")
>> (message "bar")))
>
> Of course, this is a silly use of `eval' and for more real uses this
Of course it's silly, it wasn't meant to be anything else.
> problem typically doesn't happen. This said, you can try
>
> (eval (edebug-\` (progn (message "foo") (message "bar"))))
>
> Where edebug-\` is an alias for the normal backquote which tells Edebug
> that the quoted data is actually dynamically-generated code, so Edebug
> can try to "do the right thing".
Ha, that's interesting. Do I get it correctly that the "normal
backquote" is the symbol \`, which is an alias for the `backquote'
macro?
> Stefan
Thanks,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-30 12:35 Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'? Marcin Borkowski
2015-12-30 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-30 17:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-04 22:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-04 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-05 9:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-04 23:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-05 9:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 20:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-05 20:08 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-05 4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-05 9:04 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-01-05 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-01 13:48 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-01-01 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-01 15:59 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-01-02 17:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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