# HG changeset patch # User Oleksandr Gavenko # Date 1249459845 -10800 # Node ID 8e806cddee362102799459d03af9f78152017617 # Parent 07218dd3cbcaa081d899f17dfdfaf45297e056e9 Debugging emacs (about edebug). diff -r 07218dd3cbca -r 8e806cddee36 emacs.rst --- a/emacs.rst Tue Jul 28 14:42:29 2009 +0300 +++ b/emacs.rst Wed Aug 05 11:10:45 2009 +0300 @@ -1,47 +1,51 @@ -*- mode: outline -*- -* How debug ini file? +* Debugging. + +** Using edebug. + +Execute ‘M-x edebug-defun’ (also on ‘C-u C-M-x’) on defun in source code to +enable debugging for desired function. When next time this function invoked +you entered to its debugging (jamped to its source code). + +To start debug execute code which used debugged function. + +You can disable edebug on a function by evaluating the function again using +‘C-M-x’. + +** How debug func? + +Use M-x debug-on-entry and M-x cancel-debug-on-entry to control +which functions will enter the debugger when called. + +When next time that function called automatically loaded debug-mode. + +** How debug ini file? When your InitFile has a bug, or when you load external files that cause errors, the bug is often hard to find, because the Emacs Lisp reader does not know about line numbers and files – it just knows an error happened, and that’s it. -** Binary Search. +*** Binary Search. Select half of the file in a region, and M-x eval-region. Depending on whether that causes the error or not, split this half or the other half again, and repeat. -** Elisp. +*** Elisp. - Use a keyboard macro that moves forward one expression (sexp) and evaluates it. - Try C-x check-parens. - Set (setq debug-on-error t). -** CLI. +*** CLI. $ emacs --no-init-file --no-site-file --debug-init -** Simplified Binary Search. +*** Simplified Binary Search. Add (error “No error until here”) in the middle of your file. If you get the error “No error until here” when reloading the file, move the expression towards the back of the file, otherwise towards the front of the file. - -* Using edebug. - -The main entry point is ‘M-x edebug-defun’ (also on ‘C-u C-M-x’). Use it -instead of `C-x C-e’ or ‘C-M-x’ to evaluate a ‘defun’ and instrument it for -debugging. - -You can disable edebug on a function by evaluating the function again using -‘C-M-x’. - -* How debug func? - -Use M-x debug-on-entry and M-x cancel-debug-on-entry to control -which functions will enter the debugger when called. - -When next time that function called automatically loaded debug-mode.