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Re: `guile-debugging' feature requests
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Neil Jerram |
Subject: |
Re: `guile-debugging' feature requests |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:31:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> * Completion
>
> Currently, `gds-complete-symbol' only completes symbols based on those
> defined in the current module of the attached Guile process. This is
> fine, but it would be nice if a completion function compatible with
> `hippie-expand' was provided, so that one can plug it in the middle of
> other completion functions.
I don't yet know what this means in detail, because I've never looked
at how hippie works. I'll take a look soonish, but if you happened to
work it out for me first I shouldn't mind!
> * Module Unloading/Reloading
>
> When one is writing code and periodically testing it via GDS, it may
> sometimes be useful to tell GDS to entirely unload/reload a given
> module. This would be particularly helpful when testing features that
> span several modules. I don't know exactly what would be feasible in
> this area, and this would certainly require support from Guile itself.
>
> Also, I don't know what other Scheme/Lisp development environments allow
> for in this respect. Does that sound like a useful usage pattern?
I completely agree as regards reloading, and I'm sure from my own
experience that it is a frequently useful usage pattern.
The implementation is just "load the relevant file", I believe; the
only slightly tricky part is working out the most convenient possible
interface.
I'm not sure about unloading. I don't recall ever wanting to do it in
practice, and I'm not sure Guile has any way of achieving it.
Regards,
Neil