From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: using the debugger Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:18:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87mxk13saf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302261587 18012 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2011 11:19:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:19:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 13:19:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q89j0-0005hX-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:19:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q89j0-0000s6-DE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44043 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q89iC-0000pV-ML for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:18:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q89i8-0004g3-IT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q89i8-0004fA-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q89i6-0005Jk-Rj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from customer8991.pool1.unallocated-106-0.orangehomedsl.co.uk ([91.106.35.38]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:18:42 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by customer8991.pool1.unallocated-106-0.orangehomedsl.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:18:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: customer8991.pool1.unallocated-106-0.orangehomedsl.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4ZAy6wAr7LOMZjL+Xiwdl8+uibc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80698 Archived-At: I'm just learning to use the emacs debugger, and wish I'd done so a lot earlier. There's one thing I can't figure out how to do. In many cases, while I'm stepping through the calling of a function, it in turn calls another function, which I don't really care about. I know what it's going to return, I just want to get on with things, but the secondary function is long and drawn-out and I have to hit "d" like fifty times to get through it and back to the top-level function. I thought "u" might be there to unstar a particular subroutine and let me jump straight to its return, but that doesn't seem to be the case, or else I'm using it wrong -- in any case I still have to walk through all the gory internals of all secondary functions. Can someone tell me how I can skip them? Thanks! Eric