Re: Emacs development...

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Aug 21, 2021, at 21:05, Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2021-08-21 at 16:50 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 21, 2021, at 16:16, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:
>>> 
>>> Hi Jean-Christophe,
>>> 
>>>> Right now, I use C-h f to find the function definitions and move
>>>> around the code.
>>> 
>>> That, and also M-. on a function call or variable will bring you to its
>>> definition.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Sorry for this very basic question, what's the best way to navigate back to
>> where I was ?
> 
> Seems to me, you don't have a workflow yet for development in general through 
> Emacs. Because questions like "how to go to definition" and "how to go back" 
> aren't really specific to ELisp, it's something you'd use while working with 
> pretty much any language, be it C, Python, Haskell, C++, Rust… The only 
> question you asked specific to ELisp is about debugging ELisp code.

Thank you Konstantin

I guess that's the case, but I was not even asking for *debugging*, just to see 
how values change over the run of a piece of code. If *that* is called 
"debugging", there is a discoverability issue.

I saw the EDE mode but even after reading its manual I was not sure how that 
could be put to use to ease work inside Emacs list code.

So I guess I'll stick to edebug, M-. and M-, eldoc, highlight-defined, 
which-key, helpful. Right now they seem to be a good minimal setting for what I 
want to do.

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