Subject: bug#15101: closed (Re: bug#15101: 24.3.50; debugger-eval-expression broken)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:23:03 +0000

Your bug report

#15101: 24.3.50; debugger-eval-expression broken

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#15101: 24.3.50; debugger-eval-expression broken
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: Helmut Eller <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:21:53 -0400
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> I think a good fix is to change debug.el so that point starts on the
> first line of the *Debugger* buffer rather than on the second.

I've just made that change.
Thank you,

        Stefan

Subject: 24.3.50; debugger-eval-expression broken
From: Helmut Eller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:39:55 +0200
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Start Emacs with: emacs -Q --eval '(let ((foo 123)) (debug))'

Then press e. Enter foo to evaluate the local variable foo. But it
doesn't work; it only generates the error:
debugger-eval-expression: Symbol's value as variable is void: foo

This used to work fine in previous versions.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
 of 2013-08-15 on ix
Bzr revision: 113885 [email-masked]