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From: John Kliny <emacsuser@mail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do you inspect variables when debugging with EDebug?
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 09:40:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-742f415a-fa1c-4ce4-8697-38a497dab68f-1648798851415@3c-app-mailcom-lxa01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k3dfeon.fsf@gmx.de>

> 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?



  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-01  7:40 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 [this message]
2022-04-01  7:56     ` Michael Albinus
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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