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From: Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>
To: Peter <craven@gmx.net>, kawa@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Environment Introspection
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 06:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e406a28a-42e0-0b41-aff0-1b8460d4c040@bothner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efr4a7ft.fsf@nexoid.at>

On 09/17/2017 10:42 PM, Peter wrote:
> Hello Per!
> 
> Thanks for the answers ;)
> 
>>> (This is for implementing a swank server for multiple Schemes,
>>> to make them work with SLIME).
>> I think supporting the Language Server Protocol is most promising path for
>> IDE support (including on Emacs), but it's great if you can make Swank/Slime useful.
> 
> I haven't looked into it closely yet, but is there an Emacs frontend
> that supports unified debugging and inspection? That's the reason I'm
> interested in SLIME at all, compared to geiser. I don't just want an
> interface to the existing repl, I want actual debugging, inspection and
> tracing support ;)

As far as I can tell, the Language Server Protocol does not support debugging.
It handles things like code completion, cross-references, error messages, etc.
I'm guessing LSP-based IDE handle debugging some other wise - if they handle
debugging at all.

> Things are working ok so far, I'll just see how far I
> get ;)

Once you have something useful, I'd like to see a "how-to" style writeup.
> 
> Relatedly, is there any secial support in kawa for stack traces, or
> would I just use normal java introspection?

The latter.


-- 
	--Per Bothner
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-18  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-17 20:57 Peter
2017-09-17 23:17 ` Per Bothner
2017-09-18  5:44   ` Peter
2017-09-18  6:15     ` Per Bothner [this message]
2017-09-20  7:05     ` Helmut Eller

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