From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'? Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:41:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k2nw866r.fsf@mbork.pl> <87wprv6e0f.fsf@web.de> <87mvslrn8q.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451968956 22932 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2016 04:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 04:42:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 05:42:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGJRy-0002Nl-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:42:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGJRs-0005H7-3u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGJRi-0005H0-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:42:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGJRd-00005p-Cq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGJRd-00005f-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGJRb-000241-Ca for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 181.47.69.49 ([181.47.69.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 181.47.69.49 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:42:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 181.47.69.49 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8zpB+ZJTsSj9px3hkVkJpYVzalc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108608 Archived-At: > 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 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". Stefan