From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value. Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 20:58:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83vabgevr0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180521171019.GA5750@ACM> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526925421 27360 195.159.176.226 (21 May 2018 17:57:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 19:56:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp3I-0006yu-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 19:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp5P-0000q8-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 13:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp4m-0000pk-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 13:58:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp4h-00088S-Js for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 13:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57389) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp4h-00088N-H6; Mon, 21 May 2018 13:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3246 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp4g-0005Ck-Vw; Mon, 21 May 2018 13:58:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180521171019.GA5750@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 21 May 2018 17:10:19 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225522 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:10:19 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > > In the upcoming Emacs 26.1, I'm in edebug. In the program I'm > debugging, there is something nasty in the variable > `syntax-propertize-function', and I need to find out what. > > So I do "e" and type in that variable name. > > What comes back is this: > > #f(compiled-function (start end) #) > > . This is thoroughly unhelpful. In previous versions of Emacs, this > would have printed out the function in enough detail to give variable > names, function names, etc., which could be used to search through the > Emacs source with. Did you try setting cl-print-compiled to the value 'disassemble' or 'static'?