[squeak-dev] The Debugger bugs me

Chris Muller ma.chris.m at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 15:35:49 UTC 2015


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 March 2015 at 18:16, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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..
>
> It could be, but I remember back then the debugger kind've oscillating
> between two selections, and I _think_ my change helped mitigate that.
> But I certainly did monkey around with the Debugger, so might well be
> implicated :)

Yeah, your fix made it better than it was, I only said "Frank" to try
to help zero-in on the cause so we can fix it the rest of the way.
:)


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