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 08:00:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmz2j52m.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D901B62-4826-4783-B684-968E6890E75A@gmail.com>
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
>> test suite truncating every line at ~70 characters. (Why is this done?)
>
> I agree, that's annoying. We have to truncate at some point or we'll be treated to dumps of impractical size before we know it, but 70 chars is pretty useless.
It would be nice if the backtraces used `pp' instead of dumb truncation.
Though would make things much, much more readable.
Of course, the `condition-case' created by ERT will still be an issue.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-14 8:00 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 [this message]
2023-07-14 9:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-07-14 9:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
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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