Debuggers

[Paul Pangaro <pan%athena.pangaro.dialnet.symbolics.com@RELAY.CS.NET>]

    Date: 16 Jan 90 08:26:41 GMT
    From: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
[...]

    >benefit from a line-by-line single-step debugger like (oooh I hate to

    You can step top level forms with the (step (&body forms)) expression.
    Not exactly waht you had in mind.  There is also some of this
    capability built into the window debugger (but not really) and the
    trace package.  It's amazing how a machine which is so highly praised
    for it's development environment can get by with minimal source level
    debugging. This issue has been raised again and again.  Folks at
    Symbolics keep on saying that this is a favorite area they'd like to
    work on, but they have to do X, Y, and Z first.
    -- 
    Eric A. Raymond  (raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
    G7 C7 G7 G#7 G7 G+13 C7 GM7 Am7 Bm7 Bd7 Am7 C7 Do13 G7 C7 G7 D+13: Elmore James

Sorry, I dont get this --- what am I missing? Symbolics does have a
line-by-line, single step debugger. Meta-X trace, choose Step, for
example.  Either there is some meaning here that I dont get, or I have
been hallucinating from Release 4.2 through Genera 7.2.

Hoping to be enlightened,
PANgaro