[squeak-dev] The Debugger bugs me

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 18:16:11 UTC 2015


On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> using the current trunk (doest not happen in 4.5), I cannot use the
> debugger in a useful way anymore.
>   Regardless of what I do in the editor view of the Debugger, after
> a second or so, I tries to select the current expression (as if I had
> clicked 'Where')[1] and scrolls to that place. This is especially annoying
> when scrolling around long methods or trying to do a printIt or exploreIt
> on other expressions…

This issue definitely exists in 4.5 and yes, it is annoying.  I
believe if you can make the editor dirty (e.g., insert whitespace
somewhere), that you'll be able to stop it so you can look at the
method.

> Any clue?

I *think* this is related to a change Frank did a couple of years ago
where it was desired to fix updating the method in the debugger,
pressing Command+S [Accept] and having the new code be reflected
rather than the old..

> Best
>         -Tobias
>
>
> [1]: I also have the impresison that, when one uses 'toggle break on entry', that
>     the current expression is off-by-one with the actually current one.


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