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bug#3466: 23.0.94; have `d' in debugger treat macro expansion like `c' d


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#3466: 23.0.94; have `d' in debugger treat macro expansion like `c' does
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:04:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> In the Lisp debugger (the one for `debug-on-entry' etc.), if you're
> going along doing `d, d, d...', and you get to a Lisp macro, such as
> `dolist', you must switch to `c' instead of `d', if you don't want to
> drill down into the steps of the macro expansion itself.
>
> It would be good to be able to optionally have `d' skip over macro
> expansions (that is, expand all at once, like `c' does). A new user
> option could control this.

I'm not quite sure I understand you here -- `c' evaluates (and skips)
the entire expression, so you don't get to see what it's doing "inside"
the macro.

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