From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tracing the caller of a function Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:39:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87y6lr6guc.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259358112 21113 80.91.229.12 (27 Nov 2009 21:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 22:41:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NE8ZU-0001Ed-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NE8ZT-0006An-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:41:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.170.219.22 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1259357978 3828 127.0.0.1 (27 Nov 2009 21:39:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.170.219.22; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.257.0 Safari/532.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175125 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70199 Archived-At: On Nov 27, 6:02=A0pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Nordl=F6w writes: > > How can I trace the reason for a function being called many times when > > I have no clue where? In other words how do I trace the caller of a > > function in Emacs? > > Put a breakpoint on that function and watch the backtrace. > > M-x debug-on-entry RET that-function RET > (do-something) > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ Thanks! /Nordl=F6w