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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: John Kliny <emacsuser@mail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you inspect variables when debugging with EDebug?
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:56:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgl5dyos.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-742f415a-fa1c-4ce4-8697-38a497dab68f-1648798851415@3c-app-mailcom-lxa01> (John Kliny's message of "Fri, 1 Apr 2022 09:40:51 +0200")

John Kliny <emacsuser@mail.com> writes:

Hi John,

>> Move the cursor to point after variable name, and press 'C-x C-e'. That
>> shall work everywhere, not only during debugging. And not only with
>> variables, but with any sexp.
>
> Yep, that works. Not really convenient, though, that you have to move to the end of
> the symbol to get its value, even when you're already on it.
>
> Would it be hard to fix C-h v to work with local variables too during debugging?

No idea. You might write a bug report, this would trigger further discussion.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-01  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-01  5:59 How do you inspect variables when debugging with EDebug? John Kliny
2022-04-01  6:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-04-01  7:22   ` John Kliny
2022-04-01  7:25 ` Michael Albinus
2022-04-01  7:40   ` John Kliny
2022-04-01  7:56     ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2022-04-01 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-04-01 15:04 John Kliny
2022-04-01 20:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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