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.user Subject: Re: Anyone relying on "break-at" breakpoints? Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:33:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87ve8skiko.fsf@chbouib.org> References: <874pgej3r1.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87zly613fw.fsf@laas.fr> <871wbhenqc.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193477695 15310 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2007 09:34:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:34:55 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 27 11:34:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ili4E-0002Zb-Td for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ili45-0006Sf-VN for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ili41-0006RH-I5 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ili40-0006Om-3x for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ili3z-0006OV-SE for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ili3z-0003sH-8q for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ili3o-00047N-HO for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:34:28 +0000 Original-Received: from adh419.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:34:28 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by adh419.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:34:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adh419.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i486-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YrfLcB3CQD4ZVCYFPobtPWalPF8= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6243 Archived-At: Hi, Neil Jerram writes: > There are (at least) three possibly interesting requirements that this > doesn't cover. Right now I'm still wondering about these, so ideas > are welcome. > > 1. The Guile application is going to load a file that contains > directly-executed code as well as procedure definitions, and you > want to set a breakpoint (ahead of time) on some of the > directly-executed code. But this ("directly-executed" code) is bad style anyway. ;-) > 2. You want to set a breakpoint somewhere in the middle of a complex > procedure, not right at the beginning of it. > > 3. You're using Guile interactively (e.g. using the GDS interface in > Emacs) and want to step through the evaluation of some code (which > isn't a procedure definition). > > I think your question was aiming at (2) - is that right? Exactly. But wasn't `break-at' useful when, e.g., hitting `C-x SPC' in an Emacs buffer (GDS)? Or probably it works differently because the code is not loaded into the GDS "server" from the file you're editing in Emacs, right? Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user