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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
	Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Emacs Development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Rant on ...
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 19:50:56 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce478015-828a-488c-ae1d-336528291b33@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_o67HBPHSPjfdY-y_JSYTf7cBcdG_JuUA8BE4B0_QgFA@mail.gmail.com>

> > Getting rid of the bytecode is important for communicating by
> > copying/pasting backtrace text.  You cannot copy/paste it all
> > when some of it is bytecode - you only get the first part of it
> > - up to some binary character - and the rest is truncated away.
> 
> I've been thinking we could keep the bytecode, but just print it
> with the non-text characters escaped.

That would be OK too.  But better might be to (1) remove/elide the
stuff that is meaningless and (2) keep the embedded readable chars.
There is little sense, I think, in escaping junk that is unreadable,
just to (presumably) avoid any loss of info.

For me, it's just about communicating a human-readable backtrace,
but perhaps (?) there is also a need, for some people, to be able
to communicate the whole, real deal, and enable someone else to
restore the escaped byte code from it.  I don't need that.

> I'll reopen and follow up on the bug thread tomorrow.

Good to hear.  Thx.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-18  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-17 20:47 Rant on Alan Mackenzie
2016-11-17 20:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-17 21:04   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-17 21:09   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-17 21:20     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-11-17 21:31     ` Drew Adams
2016-11-17 21:33       ` Drew Adams
2016-11-17 22:29       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-18  2:17         ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-11-18  2:56           ` Drew Adams
2016-11-18  3:27             ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-18  3:50               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-11-19  0:10               ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-11-18  2:25         ` Clément Pit--Claudel

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