From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get full value of variable during edebug function tracing? Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:45:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87k09cyj0b.fsf@gnus.org> References: <871qvn3pd0.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29539"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor , Stefan Monnier , Jean Louis To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 13:46:19 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2tNi-0007Ul-Vo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:46:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49346 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2tNh-0000Q4-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2tMk-0000OY-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:39428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2tMi-0003Al-2B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 07:45:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=6ed643Njwdd2K64yd2byZBcDVKfCtPnw6wGLKBbXLfU=; b=MlgpjeSRX1ndEunBapFE8O7zhE zLnAxove2aYw7+gnU5dVRmFBK80vsy6yX3rY7TwAnOZMEZLQgIEJ+WHpY0e+qx3Wq0V3z7ZdO6KOY u+4UTWG3WII9V8CS8F3wPfI7ICbqakdSZ5mYvdm/b4juPbKeuFcDMkMoASrXTbP0C7xI=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=xo) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2tMb-0005ER-7y; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:45:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Arthur Miller's message of "Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:22:06 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2; envelope-from=larsi@gnus.org; helo=quimby.gnus.org X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137926 Archived-At: Arthur Miller writes: > That sounds useful. Could you pop it up in a tooltip? The main point of this is to allow the user to interact with the value, which a tooltip doesn't help with. > What about using mouse pointer as a "secondary cursor", if we would > like to see some previous value, so we don't have to move cursor > around: [...] > Could that be useful to have on a C-u C-u e? It sounds like a quite specialised use case.