From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: repl debugger impressions Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:10:57 +0200 Message-ID: <874oclhsm6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <519970.1475.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287321074 13297 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2010 13:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:11:14 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 17 15:11:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P7T17-0007sB-2R for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:11:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P7T16-0001z7-C1 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34670 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P7T12-0001yc-Cf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:11:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7T11-0003NK-Cf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37742) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P7T11-0003NA-5k for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 09:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P7T10-0007r6-F1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:11:06 +0200 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:11:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:11:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 26 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:chsGr0X4tp0Y9EKmp+hboga7nTo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11049 Archived-At: Hi Mike, Mike Gran writes: > -> Step into # > IMHO, Unless that hex number can be decoded via some command, it > is just noise. It’s not just noise because it allows you to distinguish, e.g., between same-named procedures. As for frame addresses, it allows you to know whether you’re actually going down the stack or not, for instance (GDB gives that info too.) So I find it quite valuable. Now, perhaps it could be formatted in a more human-readable way? > Also, there is one feature that would make the debugger much > more valuable to me.  If, after every ",step" or ",next", it > printed out the filename:line:column, that'd be helpful.  I > hacked on it a little, and I think it would be easy to do. +1 > And, if that filename:line:column were delimited by something > unique, for example curly braces, it would then be easy enough > to write an Emacs minor mode to pick up that filename:line:column > from the Geiser or Shell window and automatically center another > window on that file at that source line, the way the GDB GUD mode > does. +1 I think we need input from the Gesier Meister here. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.