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Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given
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Marcin Borkowski |
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Re: Is there a way to instrument for edebug a form (say, a progn) given to `eval'? |
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Tue, 05 Jan 2016 10:04:55 +0100 |
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On 2016-01-05, at 05:41, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> OK, so try C-u C-M-x with this form:
>
>> (eval
>> '(progn
>> (message "foo")
>> (message "bar")))
>
> Of course, this is a silly use of `eval' and for more real uses this
Of course it's silly, it wasn't meant to be anything else.
> problem typically doesn't happen. This said, you can try
>
> (eval (edebug-\` (progn (message "foo") (message "bar"))))
>
> Where edebug-\` is an alias for the normal backquote which tells Edebug
> that the quoted data is actually dynamically-generated code, so Edebug
> can try to "do the right thing".
Ha, that's interesting. Do I get it correctly that the "normal
backquote" is the symbol \`, which is an alias for the `backquote'
macro?
> Stefan
Thanks,
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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University