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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When calling defuns is a Bad Thing.
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:07:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr2gjp48g.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20181021164110.GA4664@ACM

> Calling defuns (as opposed to primitives) from edebug is a bad idea,
> unless those defuns are also defined in edebug.el.

Just as a datapoint, I remember using Edebug to debug itself, and
it was very useful to be able to do it (although it's clearly
problematic in the general case).

So, I partly agree, but I also think maybe we should try and work to
make it easier to Edebug any code, even the one used by Edebug.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-21 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-21 16:41 When calling defuns is a Bad Thing Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-21 18:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-10-22 14:06   ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-10-22 15:25     ` Stefan Monnier

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