[Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 5dd0e5c: Mention trace.el facilities in the ELisp manual

[Eli Zaretskii]

branch: emacs-26
commit 5dd0e5c54d29e81c07798a124295c8c3f016d621
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    Mention trace.el facilities in the ELisp manual
    
    * doc/lispref/debugging.texi (Debugging): Mention the trace.el
    library.
---
 doc/lispref/debugging.texi | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/debugging.texi b/doc/lispref/debugging.texi
index cb6f6e9..fbc5238 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/debugging.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/debugging.texi
@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ alter its internal state.
 You can use Edebug, a source-level debugger for Emacs Lisp.
 
 @item
address@hidden tracing Lisp programs
+You can trace the execution of functions involved in the problem using
+the tracing facilities provided by the @file{trace.el} package.  This
+package provides the functions @code{trace-function-foreground} and
address@hidden for tracing function calls, and
address@hidden for adding values of select variables to the
+trace.  For the details, see the documentation of these facilities in
address@hidden
+
address@hidden
 If a syntactic problem is preventing Lisp from even reading the
 program, you can locate it using Lisp editing commands.