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: edebug :name spec Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:03:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wqo1ph0e.fsf@yahoo.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375639476 24086 80.91.229.3 (4 Aug 2013 18:04:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:04:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 04 20:04:37 2013 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 1V62fU-00070X-Nm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:04:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V62fU-00034o-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44683) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V62fC-00033S-Px for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V62f5-0003ae-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V62f5-0003Ze-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V62f3-0005xD-V1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:04:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-168-177.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.168.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:04:09 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-168-177.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:04:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-168-177.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CD3044qotnAfC7Mnzv3f7MLT8RA= 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:92702 Archived-At: > I don't understand the :name debug specification documented at (info > "(elisp) Specification List"). What is the name (component) of a > definition ? I guess that's simply the name of the function. How is an > additionnal symbol used in this context ? How is it used by edebug ? I vaguely remember figuring it out in some distant past. Maybe it had to do with Edebug's facilities that let you do something like coverage checking (or was it building a calltree? It's pretty fuzzy, sorry). Stefan