I'm happy to announce release 0.11 of my guile-debugging package, which includes an Emacs front end for Guile development as well as various debugging enhancements such as breakpoints.
The tarball is at http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/guile-debugging-0.11.tar.gz There is a tutorial for the Emacs front end (GDS) at http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/gds-tutorial.txt And the complete manual is at http://download.gna.org/guile-debugging/guile-debugging.html NEWS is appended below. Regards, Neil Changes in guile-debugging-0.11 * GDS changes ** Breakpoints are easier to use The breakpoints set by `C-x SPC' now work regardless of whether the code that they are targeted at is loaded before or after the setting of the breakpoint. See the manual for further details. ** Tool tips to show variable values When GDS is displaying a stack, you can see the value of any identifier in the code that corresponds to the selected stack frame just by moving the mouse over it. ** Tutorial added New file gds-tutorial.txt contains a step-by-step tutorial on how to use GDS. ** Better automatic buffer association heuristics The code for automatically associating a Scheme buffer with a Guile client has been improved, and made customizable by the introduction of several gds-auto-* options. With the default settings of these options, the intention is to do the "obviously" correct thing in 99% of cases. ** Quit/continue/go distinction removed In a GDS stack display buffer, the `q', `c' and `g' keystrokes now all have the same effect. For a continuable stack (i.e. at a trap or breakpoint) this is to continue normal execution; for a non-continuable stack (i.e after an exception) it is to return to the lazy catch handler, which will then rethrow the exception. (The previous idea of `q' executing (throw 'debugger-quit) has been discarded, because it relies on assumptions about the dynamic context that are not always correct.) ** Breakpoints persist between sessions Breakpoint definitions are written by default to the ~/.gds-breakpoints file, and reread when GDS is loaded again. * Scheme API changes ** New procedure: throw->trap-context This makes it easy to invoke GDS from within a lazy-catch handler, so as to explore the stack at the point of the throw. Basic usage is: (lazy-catch <key> <protected-thunk> (lambda (key . args) ... (gds-debug-trap (throw->trap-context key args)) ...)) ** New module: (ossau breakpoints) Provides the Scheme-level interface to breakpoints; see the manual for details. ** Support for Guile 1.7 as well as Guile 1.6 The Scheme code has been enhanced so that it works under Guile 1.7 as well. ** Module removed: (ossau property-guardian) No longer used, so removed. ** Location traps have been made precise They now refer to a precise line and column position, rather than to a range of positions. * Released, 9th October 2005 _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
