From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value. Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 14:05:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180521171019.GA5750@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526928072 9651 195.159.176.226 (21 May 2018 18:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 18:41:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 20:41:08 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKpk4-0002Ow-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKpmB-0005CB-3f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 14:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKpm1-0005BC-8v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 14:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKplw-0004Ih-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 14:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45315 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKplw-0004Ho-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 14:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKp9R-0006F2-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 20:03:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:gjvN1GwydJ8kbRk0kWyNC7ShjT8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225525 Archived-At: > What comes back is this: > > #f(compiled-function (start end) #) In an ideal world, you should be able to click on the "#" and have it displayed in disassembled form. This already works in several contexts, and we should work to make it work in more cases. Stefan