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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 09:11:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c289760e-96f2-4a79-a2a0-2aa34d427576@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2nw866r.fsf@mbork.pl>

> the subject says it all.  And please don't tell me that eval is evil;
> that I know, in fact, I'm asking partly to gather some arguments;-).

Dunno about edebug (I don't use it).  But you can invoke the debugger
by just inserting `(debug)' as the first arg to progn (or anywhere else):

  (eval '(progn (debug) ...))



  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-30 17:11 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 [this message]
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
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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