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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help |
Date: | Thu, 3 Oct 2019 18:28:15 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.0 |
On 10/3/19 3:32 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
IMO if you need to debug Emacs outside the lisp level
But I don't normally use the feature to debug Emacs's C code. I use it to understand what the C code will do if some Lisp code calls it, in greater detail than if I just read the doc string. I use the feature in the same way to understand Lisp-implemented functions, too. This aspect of the feature is useful even in prepackaged Emacs distributions where I don't plan to debug or change either the C or the Lisp code.
Of course this aspect of the feature is not useful for everybody. However, it is useful for some people and that provides a case for adding it.
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