EmacsWiki: Category Debug (original) (raw)

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<kensanata> everytime emacs encounters an error in InitFile,
  emacs cries a little.

Debugging Emacs:

• DebugEmacs – debug the C layer using gdb
• DebugMessages – find out where Messages messages are coming from
• EmacsMemoryDebugging – look for memory leaks

Debugging EmacsLisp:

• DebuggerMode – debugging EmacsLisp
  • BacktraceBuffer – quick and dirty EmacsLisp debugging happens in the Backtrace buffer
  • SourceLevelDebugger – the full Edebug for EmacsLisp
• DebugFileLoading – finding errors in files
• DataDebug – Examine large complex Emacs Lisp data structures

Profiling and tracing EmacsLisp:

• EmacsLispProfiler
• EmacsNativeProfiler
• EmacsLispBenchmark
• EmacsLispTracing
• Log4E Logging For Elisp - a logging framework for Elisp

Debugging other programs using Emacs:

• DebuggingWithEmacs usually involves the GrandUnifiedDebugger (GUD) as an interface to command line debuggers such as gdb, dbx, cdb,….
  • GdbMode – a debugger mode specialized for gdb
  • PdbNotes – additional setup info for python
  • DebugAdapterProtocol – debugging using the Debug Adapter Protocol
• There is a rewrite of GUD from scratch. The debuggers can be run stand-alone or from an existing a comint “track-mode” shell The debuggers supported include:
  • bashdb – Bash debugger
  • gdb – can be run stand-alone or from an existing a comint “track-mode” shell
  • kshdb – Ksh debugger
  • pdb – Stock C Python debugger
  • perl – Stock perl5db debugger
  • pydb – Python 2.x debugger (but please use the newer pydbgr instead)
  • trepan2 – Python 2.x debugger (formerly pydbgr)
  • trepan3k – Python 3.x debugger
  • rdebug – Ruby debugger ruby-debug
  • remake – GNU make debugger
  • trepan – Ruby 1.9 YARV debugger
  • trepanx – Ruby debugger for Rubinius
  • trepan.pl – Trepanning Debugger for Perl
  • zshdb – Zsh debugger
• VisualCDebugger – interfacing with the Visual C++ debugger