RE: using the debugger

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> 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. 
> Can someone tell me how I can skip them?

Use `c' to `c'ut to the `c'hase, skipping directly to the result of an
evaluation.

Use `d' to `d'ig through an evaluation step by step.

Remember the `C-h m' is your friend in nearly any buffer.


[Ken's reply about "instrumenting" was no doubt about using `edebug'.  I take it
that you are instead using `debug' (which is what I use, FWIW).  IOW, I assume
you're either calling `(debug)' in your code or doing `M-x debug-on-entry' or
setting `debug-on-error' or `debug-on-quit' to non-nil.]