[ESS] debug: automatically step into functions
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 20:25:15 CET 2014
How about `ess-debug-flag-temporary-for-debugging`. It will work as
`ess-debug-flag-for-debugging` on the object at point, and when the
debugger is exited the function will be automatically un-debugged.
Vitalie
>>> Andreas Leha on Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:59:36 +0100 wrote:
> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
>> >>> Andreas Leha on Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:49:06 +0100 wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > lets say I debug function a() which calls function b() and I want to
>> > step into b() during the debugging session.
>>
>> > In this situation I can flag b() for debugging also during the active
>> > debugging session, which is great. But if I want to follow control into
>> > some deeply nested function, that becomes cumbersome - despite all the
>> > support by ess (ess-debug-flag-for-debugging, ...)
>>
>> > So, my question is: Is there even more support by ess? The most
>> > straight forward support IMO would be a key-stroke to sth like
>> > ess-debug-command-next-and-step-into that would automatically flag b()
>> > for debugging before executing ess-debug-command-next (and also undebug
>> > it automatically again).
>>
>> > Is that possible (or even already implemented)?
>>
>> Possible? Yes. Implemented in ESS? No. Implemented in R. To the best of
>> my knowledge not. If you can think of how to implement this in R. Then,
>> adding it to ESS is straightforward.
>>
> Well, I think the main difficulty is to determine which function to
> debug, as functions can be called in too many ways. Obvious and simple
> examples are do.call() or apply(). Or also 'x <- b(10)' where probably
> not '<-' but 'b()' is to be debugged.
> There are also undecidable cases, like 'x <- a(10, b(100))' where ess
> would have difficulties to tell whether a() ore b() are to be debugged
> next.
> Maybe a good interface would be to provide a list of function calls in
> the next 'line' to the user to decide (while omitting functions like
> '+', apply(), ...).
> Without too much thought (and in absence of much/any knowledge in that
> field) I had something like this in mind:
> If the next line to execute by ess-debug-command-next is 'b(10)' then
> ess could run 'debug(quote(b(10))[[1]])' prior to sending the line to R
> (and undebug afterwards).
> All in all, such feature would be cool, but since I can flag function
> for debugging manually it is definitely not a must-have.
> Regards,
> Andreas
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