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Support showing stack trace for exceptions in editor binding and prompt #945

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xiaq opened this issue Mar 22, 2020 · 2 comments
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xiaq commented Mar 22, 2020

Today if an editor binding or prompt throws an exception, Elvish only shows the error message and hides the full stack trace. It should be possible to show the full stack trace.

This can be implemented by supporting a flag $edit:show-exception-stack-trace, and show the stack trace when it is true.

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A gentle ping on this - I'm still puzzled by an error I see sometimes, and which I have been unable to trace:

prompt function error: arity mismatch: arguments here must be 0 values, but is 1 value

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xiaq commented Apr 28, 2020

@zzamboni Rest assured that it's being prioritized - it's part of the 0.14 milestone :)

I am considering a different way to implement this:

  • Add a list variable $edit:exceptions to save exceptions.
  • Whenever an exception happens in one of the editor callbacks, print out the index where the exception is saved (e.g. exception saved in $edit:exceptions[3])
  • Add a builtin to print the full exception stack trace, e.g. show-exc $edit:exceptions[3].

It also makes sense to add a exc module for exceptions utilities, so the show-exc command can be exc:show instead.

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This is preparing for the work of saving exceptions in a variable (#945).
@xiaq xiaq closed this as completed in c53c094 May 2, 2020
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