From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get full value of variable during edebug function tracing?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:36:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvv8sy3djk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871qvn3pd0.fsf@gnus.org
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-06-18 00:19:07] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>> Personally, in similar circumstances I tend to do the following:
>>
>> e (setq my-foo <THEVARIABLE>) RET
>>
>> and then I go to my trusty `ielm` buffer to look at `my-foo` in all
>> its glory.
>
> That's what I do, too, but it's kinda cumbersome, isn't it?
Not really, because most of the time I don't just want to see the full
value but I want to actually use it, passing it to functions,
etc... which is a lot more convenient to do in IELM than in Edebug.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-18 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-17 18:25 How to get full value of variable during edebug function tracing? Jean Louis
2022-06-17 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-17 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-18 2:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-06-18 8:22 ` Jean Louis
2022-06-18 11:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-19 6:22 ` Arthur Miller
2022-06-19 11:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 5:35 ` Arthur Miller
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