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Feature request: step straight into function when there are evaluations in the arguments #309

Closed johnomotani closed 2 years ago

johnomotani commented 2 years ago

When using Debugger.jl from the REPL, I often find I have a function call like

@views foo!(a[:,j,i], b[j], c.bar)

and want to step into foo!(). Often, stepping into the evaluations of getindex(), getproperty(), etc. just get in the way.

After asking about this on Discourse (https://discourse.julialang.org/t/debugger-usage-step-over-evaluations-in-function-arguments-straight-into-the-function/77018) it seems the best current solution for this case is to use se to step over the evaluations in the arguments, and then finally s to step into the function. When there are a lot of arguments, it becomes quite easy to miss the point where I've finally reached the foo!() call that I want to step in to.

I think it would be nice to have a single command (like sf maybe, for step-into-function?) that would cover this case in a single command.

KristofferC commented 2 years ago

So step into the last function on the given line?

johnomotani commented 2 years ago

So step into the last function on the given line?

Yes, I guess that would be it :+1:

KristofferC commented 2 years ago

This has been fixed in the latest version (might have to wait a bit for the registration to go through). The command to use is sl.