On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:28 PM Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
I must explain something so that my requests don't sound arbitrary.
When I work on a problem, I usually run Emacs many times in different
ways, most of the times under a debugger. Since the debugger (and
other tools) need to read my init files for working properly as I'm
used to, I cannot easily change my home directory, or mess with my
init files during the debugging session. In addition, with 10-20 sec
delay I don't need a profiler to notice it.
So it is much more helpful to have a recipe that is as simple as
possible (so invoking it many times won't be painful), avoids
interfering with my init files and system configuration, and includes
only the stuff that is directly relevant to the bug reproduction.
A good recipe along the above lines could easily speed up a bugfix by
hours and even days. So if you can afford that, please try to follow
these guidelines when you prepare a recipe.
I hope this clarifies the reason for my requests.
Makes sense. I was under the impression that having an all-inclusive MWE was more useful and so I went through the effort of creating one :) I was under the impression that you would run "r -Q" in gdb and simply paste my code in there to get going. But now I understand that you need your personal config too to help you debug in the most efficient way.
As for the recipe for this one:
1. Install sml-mode from GNU Elpa.
2. Save a file called foo.sml with below content:
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(* ''a is a special equality type (it is not the same as the generic 'a type. It *)
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Note that while doing so, if the buffer is already in sml-mode, you might not even need to go to step 3. Because the same thing happened to me when I encountered this bug for the first time. I was actually typing out that comment, and my emacs started freezing as I was typing.
3. Open it.
Thanks for working on this.