[ESS] debug: automatically step into functions

[Vitalie Spinu]

How about `ess-debug-flag-temporary-for-debugging`. It will work as
`ess-debug-flag-for-debugging` on the object at point, and when the
debugger is exited the function will be automatically un-debugged.

  Vitalie

 >>> Andreas Leha on Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:59:36 +0100 wrote:

 > Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
 >> >>> Andreas Leha on Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:49:06 +0100 wrote:
 >> 
 >> > Hi all,
 >> > lets say I debug function a() which calls function b() and I want to
 >> > step into b() during the debugging session.
 >> 
 >> > In this situation I can flag b() for debugging also during the active
 >> > debugging session, which is great.  But if I want to follow control into
 >> > some deeply nested function, that becomes cumbersome - despite all the
 >> > support by ess (ess-debug-flag-for-debugging, ...)
 >> 
 >> > So, my question is:  Is there even more support by ess?  The most
 >> > straight forward support IMO would be a key-stroke to sth like
 >> > ess-debug-command-next-and-step-into that would automatically flag b()
 >> > for debugging before executing ess-debug-command-next (and also undebug
 >> > it automatically again).
 >> 
 >> > Is that possible (or even already implemented)?
 >> 
 >> Possible? Yes. Implemented in ESS? No. Implemented in R. To the best of
 >> my knowledge not. If you can think of how to implement this in R. Then,
 >> adding it to ESS is straightforward.
 >> 

 > Well, I think the main difficulty is to determine which function to
 > debug, as functions can be called in too many ways.  Obvious and simple
 > examples are do.call() or apply().  Or also 'x <- b(10)' where probably
 > not '<-' but 'b()' is to be debugged.

 > There are also undecidable cases, like 'x <- a(10, b(100))' where ess
 > would have difficulties to tell whether a() ore b() are to be debugged
 > next.

 > Maybe a good interface would be to provide a list of function calls in
 > the next 'line' to the user to decide (while omitting functions like
 > '+', apply(), ...).

 > Without too much thought (and in absence of much/any knowledge in that
 > field) I had something like this in mind:

 > If the next line to execute by ess-debug-command-next is 'b(10)' then
 > ess could run 'debug(quote(b(10))[[1]])' prior to sending the line to R
 > (and undebug afterwards).

 > All in all, such feature would be cool, but since I can flag function
 > for debugging manually it is definitely not a must-have.

 > Regards,
 > Andreas

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