bug#20074: edebug tracing can't be stopped with 'S'

[Mario Valencia]

The manual should have a note indicating this is unimplemented functionality, and the feature should be put in the emacs to-do list. I consider this to be high priority. Also please don't forget to include my email as a recipient for messages in this bug.

2015-03-13 3:36 GMT-06:00 Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>:

So is this going to be fixed or what? 

2015-03-11 10:30 GMT-06:00 Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>:

From the manual:

While executing or tracing, you can interrupt the execution by typing

any Edebug command.  Edebug stops the program at the next stop point and

then executes the command you typed.  For example, typing `t' during

execution switches to trace mode at the next stop point.  You can use

`S' to stop execution without doing anything else.

2015-03-11 10:28 GMT-06:00 Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-03-11 10:26 GMT-06:00
Subject: Re: bug#20074: edebug tracing can't be stopped with 'S'
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>

Its never worked and the manual implies it should. Even if the manual didnt, it still should work.

El mar 11, 2015 10:24 a.m., "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> escribió:

> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:42:07 -0600
> From: Mario Valencia <mariovalspi@gmail.com>
>
> I start emacs with "runemacs -Q", on windows 8.
> Then i write the following function in the scratch buffer:
>
> (defun forever ()
> (interactive)
> (while t (message "doing nothing")))
>
> I then press C-u C-M-x to instrument the function for debugging. Then i
> do M-x forever. Then i press 't' to start tracing, and edebug starts
> tracing the code correctly. However, if i press 'S' to stop, it doesn't
> work. Pressing many 'S' commands repeatedly apparently only cause edebug
> to evaluate the 'while' _expression_ faster. Pressing 'q', <SPC>, 'n', do
> not seem to stop edebug either, they only appear to speed up the
> evaluation of the code. I have to press C-g then 'q' to return me to the
> toplevel.

First, I see this on GNU/Linux as well, so it's not Windows-specific,
at least.

And second, did this ever work as you expect?  I tried as far back as
Emacs 23.3, and I see the same behavior.  Moreover, the ELisp manual
doesn't say anything about 'S' interrupting a trace, at least
according to my reading.