[slime-devel] Re: Problem with truncation of strings in debugger

[Jeff Workman]

Sorry, I was wrong, it's not that the actual string data is truncated.
I hadn't realized I still had the debugger active when I was looking at
the *str* global by printing it with (format t "~A" *str*) from the
REPL, so whatever global setting the debugger uses to do string
truncation was still in effect.

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 19:14 -0400, Jeff Workman wrote:
> When I evaluate (format t "~A" (some-str-function)) on a longish string
> in debugger with E, the string is printed truncated, which seems like
> the wrong behavior to me.
> 
> Also, surprisingly when I evaluate (setf *str* (some-str-function)) from
> debugger, the string stored in *str* is truncated as well.
> 
> That suggests to me that the debugger is modifying the behavior of
> (format nil ...) or other functions I use in constructing strings used
> internally in my program, which would obviously be very bad and could
> interfere with operation of the program.
> 
> I'm using SBCL 1.0.20 on Linux (and cvs slime) btw.
>