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History of 2025-10-06 A debug helper in Elisp
2025-10-06
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A few days ago I was writing a pretty complex Elisp function which didn’t work correctly. My usual tool to use in such cases if of course Edebug – but in this case, it didn’t help much. One of the things my function did was messing around with buffers and windows, and this interferes with Edebug insisting on showing the source code in a specific window. In such cases, I miss the old-school “printf debugging”.