Edebug and defuns not on top level

Edebug and defuns not on top level

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

If I use something like this

   (when my-platform
      (defun my-defun()
         ...
	)
     )

I can not directly evaluate my-defun with edebug-defun. What are the 
recommendations to do in a case like this?

Re: Edebug and defuns not on top level

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> If I use something like this
>
>   (when my-platform
>      (defun my-defun()
>         ...
> 	)
>     )
>
> I can not directly evaluate my-defun with edebug-defun. What are the
> recommendations to do in a case like this?

I'd try narrow-to-region.

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: Edebug and defuns not on top level

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> If I use something like this
>>
>>   (when my-platform
>>      (defun my-defun()
>>         ...
>> 	)
>>     )
>>
>> I can not directly evaluate my-defun with edebug-defun. What are the
>> recommendations to do in a case like this?
> 
> I'd try narrow-to-region.


Thanks, that worked. This tip is so useful that I think it deserves a 
place in the Info documentation.

Re: Edebug and defuns not on top level

[David Kastrup]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> If I use something like this
>>>
>>>   (when my-platform
>>>      (defun my-defun()
>>>         ...
>>> 	)
>>>     )
>>>
>>> I can not directly evaluate my-defun with edebug-defun. What are the
>>> recommendations to do in a case like this?
>>
>> I'd try narrow-to-region.
>
>
> Thanks, that worked. This tip is so useful that I think it deserves a
> place in the Info documentation.

Well, it should also be possible to outdent the defun to column 1 by
deleting the leading blanks.  narrow-to-region has merely the
advantage that it does not actually change the file (in the case of
Emacs Elisp source files, they might well be readonly for a user, and
fiddling with read-only settings or creating a local copy might be
less convenient).

-- 
David Kastrup