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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:18:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6q6j1gk.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04C7EE32-F6C4-4310-A8B8-FEFF45C6ACB7@gmail.com>

Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:

> 14 juli 2023 kl. 10.00 skrev Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>:
>
>> It would be nice if the backtraces used `pp' instead of dumb truncation.
>> Though would make things much, much more readable.
>
> Not necessarily as it also means that uninteresting data takes up much more space.
> Better have a way to expand and pretty-print individual stack frames on demand in the backtrace buffer.

I am a bit confused.
Aren't we talking about terminal output?

>> Of course, the `condition-case' created by ERT will still be an issue.
>
> Yes, and that was probably what really caused Alan's troubles. We could do something about that.

I think that this problem was left unresolved due to lack of ideas:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50629

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-14  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-13 13:35 The poor quality of Emacs's backtraces Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-13 14:17 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-07-13 14:57 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14  8:00   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-14  9:08     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14  9:18       ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-14 10:58         ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 10:56     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 10:48   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 12:35     ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 13:07       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14 18:06         ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 20:51           ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-17 15:52             ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-17 19:02               ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-17 19:50                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-18 11:19                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-18 11:54                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-18 13:57                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-19  8:05                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-19 10:33                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-19 15:45                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-07-14  1:10 ` Michael Heerdegen

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