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Kaelin Colclasure

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13 Sept 1999, 03:00:0013/09/1999
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Greetings,

Is there an emacs mode which will allow stepping through code running in
an inferior Lisp process one source line (well, form) at a time? I guess
I had always assumed the Ilisp mode shipped by Franz did this... [I think
it says a lot that, after working mostly full-time in CL for the last
month or so, I only noticed I couldn't do this yesterday. Prior to then
I'd been able to do all my debugging using the read-eval-print loop and
occasionally #'trace and :zoom.]

Oh, I do know about #'step and friends in ACL. This causes each source
form to be printed before it's executed -- what I want is for the cursor
in an emacs buffer to step to the beginning of each form before it is
executed...

-- Kaelin


Erik Naggum

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14 Sept 1999, 03:00:0014/09/1999
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* "Kaelin Colclasure" <kae...@everest.com>

| Is there an emacs mode which will allow stepping through code running in
| an inferior Lisp process one source line (well, form) at a time?

not that I know of, but what have been cool was a buffer that displayed
what the compiler had compiled relative to the source code, and stepping
through that, with navigation tools to synchronize the two buffers.

#:Erik

Eric Marsden

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14 Sept 1999, 03:00:0014/09/1999
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>>>>> "kc" == Kaelin Colclasure <kae...@everest.com> writes:

kc> Is there an emacs mode which will allow stepping through code
kc> running in an inferior Lisp process one source line (well, form)
kc> at a time?

Not quite what you're looking for since it doesn't work with emacs,
but maybe lispdebug (a source-level debugger + stepper + profiler)
which claims to work with CMUCL, ACL, CLISP, and GCL might be useful
(disclaimer: I've never used it myself). It has a Tcl/Tk interface.


<URL:http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/lisp/lispdebug-0.8.lsm>

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Eric Marsden

Marco Antoniotti

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14 Sept 1999, 03:00:0014/09/1999
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Eric Marsden <emar...@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:

...

> (disclaimer: I've never used it myself). It has a Tcl/Tk interface.

AAAAARGH!

Cheers

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