From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: egnarts-ms Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Edebug & lexical scope Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 01:57:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33874033.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <33870303.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337417863 4589 80.91.229.3 (19 May 2012 08:57:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 08:57:43 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 10:57:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1SVfTk-0000Ex-H1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 10:57:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVfTk-0008FV-1t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 04:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVfTc-0008FE-Er for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 04:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVfTX-0005KX-23 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 04:57:28 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:42199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SVfTW-0005JL-Tb for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 04:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from telerig.nabble.com ([192.168.236.162]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SVfTP-0002dL-E6 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2012 01:57:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Nabble-From: egnartsms@gmail.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150560 Archived-At: Stefan, thank you very much for your reply. It was important for me to know comments of a competent person. Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Also in the case of the normal debugger, we would generally want to be > able to get the value of a variable in a particular stack frame. > > So it would be better to have an "eval-in-frame" which receives some > description of the stack frame to use (and of course, more primitives to > get a handle of the current stack frame as well as the Nth previous one). > AFAIK, currently it is not possible to see values of lexical variables in a particular stack frame, in normal debugger, right ? We can just press "e" and evaluate something, but during this evaluation all the dynamic variables will hold the same values as they hold in the topmost stack frame (where we're suspended). -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Edebug---lexical-scope-tp33870303p33874033.html Sent from the Emacs - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.