From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Standard Elisp debugger vs. Edebug Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 18:13:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874mnqofox.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430864127 22326 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2015 22:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 22:15:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 06 00:15:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypl7Y-0005UU-2T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 00:15:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypl7X-0005tc-9O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 18:15:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypl7O-0005tP-Pc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 18:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypl7J-0005Z4-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 18:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypl7J-0005Wx-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 May 2015 18:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ypl7I-0005Ks-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 May 2015 00:15:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.139.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 May 2015 00:15:04 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 May 2015 00:15:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UXc7jDsQmJv9p8u1ETgDm2BI0O4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104228 Archived-At: > The obvious question arises: is there any reason to use the standard > debugger at all? Yes, they have different strengths and weaknesses. It would be great to have a better debugger which combined the features of the two, but it would require a very significant engineering effort. Stefan