From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24514: 24.5; Lispy backtraces
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:30:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838trvkq72.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <233f14a0-7542-5d0c-d8da-209e7e5e54f7@gmail.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Sun, 4 Dec 2016 17:14:38 -0500)
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 17:14:38 -0500
>
> > So would it perhaps make sense to rename 'backtrace' into something
> > like 'backtrace--internal', and make it accept one more argument, the
> > function to apply to each frame, which is now hard-coded as 'prin1'?
> > Would that allow you to implement 'backtrace' in Lisp and also
> > implement whatever application you had in mind, by calling
> > 'backtrace--internal' passing it your own function instead of 'prin1'?
>
> Quite possibly! Are you worried about the cost of allocating a list containing all frames?
No, I'm not worried about that.
> a variant of backtrace taking a callback would definitely make backtrace-frames easy to implement on the lisp side :)
Yup.
> There's no big hurry on this, anyway: it's just that we recently added a neat option to backtrace, and there were mentions of making the backtrace buffer more useful in various ways, too.
Will you be working on this idea at some point?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-05 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-22 23:14 bug#24514: 24.5; [WIP][PATCH] Lispy backtraces Vasilij Schneidermann
2016-09-23 2:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-23 7:51 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2016-09-23 13:22 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
[not found] ` <82e39377-f31b-698c-5a9a-343868686799@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20161202005226.GA4215@odonien.localdomain>
2016-12-02 1:23 ` bug#24514: 24.5; " Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-02 2:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-03 22:15 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-04 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-04 19:27 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-04 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-04 22:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-05 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-05 6:02 ` Lisp-friendly backtraces [was: Lispy backtraces] Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-05 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-05 14:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-05 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-05 16:31 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-05 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-05 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-05 18:59 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-06 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-07 8:27 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-12-12 22:42 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-23 8:12 ` bug#24514: 24.5; [WIP][PATCH] Lispy backtraces Vasilij Schneidermann
2016-09-23 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-23 9:55 ` bug#24515: " Vasilij Schneidermann
2016-09-23 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-23 13:25 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-23 16:33 ` John Wiegley
[not found] ` <mailman.2864.1474586229.22741.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-09-23 18:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-09-23 20:43 ` Richard Stallman
2016-09-27 19:16 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2016-09-28 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-30 10:29 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2016-09-30 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-12 15:34 ` Vasilij Schneidermann
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