From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'? Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:30:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvslrn8q.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87k2nw866r.fsf@mbork.pl> <87wprv6e0f.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451946672 28227 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2016 22:31:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 23:31:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aGDea-0002Cb-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 23:31:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGDea-0007Xz-Df for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:31:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGDeR-0007Wp-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:30:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGDeN-00076Z-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:30:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:34443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aGDeM-00076L-Qg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:30:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E638F2016; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 23:30:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DqLauSk2XrOk; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 23:30:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9DFD48F200B; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 23:30:46 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 In-reply-to: <87wprv6e0f.fsf@web.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108605 Archived-At: On 2015-12-30, at 18:29, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Marcin Borkowski writes: > >> the subject says it all. And please don't tell me that eval is evil; >> that I know, in fact, I'm asking partly to gather some arguments;-). > > I you hit C-u C-M-x over a form in a buffer that is not a definition, it > is evaluated with edebug. > > If that's not what you mean, I don't understand the question. OK, so try C-u C-M-x with this form: (eval '(progn (message "foo") (message "bar"))) and see how Edebug doesn't step into the progn. I suspect that it's impossible to actually edebug the `progn' form here, I just would like to make sure. > Regards, > > Michael. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University