[slime-devel] Re: Summer of Code, mentorship, technical adviser

[Svein Ove Aas]

On 29 Jun 2005 20:41:38 +0200, Luke Gorrie <luke at synap.se> wrote:

> For the UI part I would suggest beginning by getting familiar with
> edebug in Emacs 21 because it's a great model of a stepper. If you
> evaluate an elisp definition with `C-u C-M-x' then it is defined in
> interpreted fashion for stepping and a breakpoint is automatically set
> - i.e. as soon as you call the function you will be in the debugger.
> When you're done debugging you just use `C-M-x' to redefine it in the
> normal way. Simple & nice inteface.
>
That *will* come in handy.
It doesn't do everything I'm trying to do, but it's a nice model. And,
of course, it will help me debug my elisp code - I'll have to learn a
lot more of that for this project.


>
> Writing a stepper will be very good karma :-)
>
Eh. I need one, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to write one. ^_^