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Re: How to get full value of variable during edebug function tracing?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: How to get full value of variable during edebug function tracing? |
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Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:36:10 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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