From: James Nguyen <james@jojojames.com>
To: 30151@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30151: Debugger API
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:56:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1516251398.1364994.1239356432.7334F1AF@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
I've been meaning to look at how to implement a debugger for Emacs for various languages.
There seems to be various options to go with (realgud, gud/gud-mi?, NIH roll my own) and it seems the community chooses different paths (including not writing one at all).
Some debuggers that come to mind are: edebug, gud-gdb, realgud, cider, indium, jdibug with a varied feature set.
I'm curious if it makes sense (or is doable) to have something similar to flycheck/flymake but for debugging (or like VSCode's https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/api-debugging) so that there's a common interface to writing a debugger.
gud-def looks to be the closest thing but it seems somewhat low level given it doesn't draw breakpoints on screen (random example) or provide something like a 'locals' view.
If gud-def is the recommended approach, I wonder why the other debuggers (list mentioned above) don't leverage it.
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James Nguyen
james@jojojames.com
next reply other threads:[~2018-01-18 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-18 4:56 James Nguyen [this message]
2018-01-18 14:41 ` bug#30151: Debugger API Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-19 9:25 ` James Nguyen
2018-01-19 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-21 19:16 ` James Nguyen
2019-09-28 22:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-28 23:53 ` james
2019-09-29 0:13 ` Stefan Kangas
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