[ESS] debugging, mostly tracebug
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Apr 8 18:15:35 CEST 2013
>> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha at med.uni-goettingen.de>
>> on Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:59:28 +0200 wrote:
>> Oups, it actually works fine. The limitation is not as severe as I
>> thought. C-c C-t d does not accept input that is not in the completion
>> list, and that is not a biggie. The following will work fine:
>>
> Sorry to step in.
> Would it be hard to change that? For instance, I'd find it handy if
> not-exported functions from a package would be 'visible' to a debugging
> session in that package. (Not very important, though, as I can call
> debug() on them manually, of course)
Yes, good idea indeed. Also non-exported names should be visible in
those packages in ess-developer-packages.
> And more general it would also be handy if local variables (as variables
> defined in the debugging session) would appear in the completion list
> during the debugging session.
Yep, that is part of the plan.
[...]
>>
>> This is the editors task. Let's not mix it with R. I have this long in
>> my todo list. Stepping into next call frame is on todo as well.
> That is great news. (I guess due to my limited
> programming skills) that would be really helpful quite often.
> (Maybe it'll be Christmas soon, after all....)
I plan to resume working on it at the end of the month, so may be your
Christmas will come on May day ;)
Vitalie
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