Someone made a recording of Russ' talk about acid at the 2nd IWP9, see http://mirror.cat-v.org/iwp9/2007/videos/ Acid-Trips.mov. It unfortunately cuts out before the end. You can follow along http://swtch.com/~rsc/talks/acid07/
That might not help answer your question, but it may give some additional insights and techniques to get to what you're wanting. -jas On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.syk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > is there any document, besides the two papers by P. Winterbottom > (Acid Manual, Acid: A Debugger Built From a Language) > showing a practical use of acid? > > I wonder if I could use it for watching acme during its running. > > [I wanted to change acme so that it could understand environment > variables --- such as $home --- when doing completion after pressing > ctrl-f or ins. However, when I tried to read the source, I found structures > with elements whose meaning is not documented. > Thus I'd like to run acme and watch and guess what they are for. > But to this end I'd like to see some examples of how to use acid. > I have never done anything like this before; I even don't know if it's > viable.] > > Thanks for any comments. > Ruda >
