Re: edebug: regrettable loss of information in Emacs 26.1 when printing a variable's value.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 17:10:19 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> 
> In the upcoming Emacs 26.1, I'm in edebug.  In the program I'm
> debugging, there is something nasty in the variable
> `syntax-propertize-function', and I need to find out what.
> 
> So I do "e" and type in that variable name.
> 
> What comes back is this:
> 
>     #f(compiled-function (start end) #<bytecode 0x191eb39>)
> 
> .  This is thoroughly unhelpful.  In previous versions of Emacs, this
> would have printed out the function in enough detail to give variable
> names, function names, etc., which could be used to search through the
> Emacs source with.

Did you try setting cl-print-compiled to the value 'disassemble' or
'static'?