RE: Lua debugger under Emacs?

[Steve Heller <steveheller@...>]

--- Rici Lake <lua@ricilake.net> wrote:

> After some experimentation and a certain amount of
> help from various people,
> I managed to get emacs on windows hooked up to ldb,
> although I find the
> performance sluggish in comparison with vim.
> 
> I downloaded emacsclientw (and, indeed, the rest of
> the emacs install) from
> http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html and more
> or less followed
> the instructions from
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/EmacsW32
> The rest was just trial and error and asking
> questions on irc, and I
> ended up with the following (you'll have to adjust
> it for the location
> of the emacsclientw executable, of course). The
> truly bizarre command
> line is the only way I could find to get quoting to
> work with the
> Windows shell, but there may well be a better way.
> 
> I also had to change the .emacs file installed by
> emacsw32 to not
> maximize the gvim window on startup:
> 
>  '(emacsw32-max-frames nil)

Do you have any idea where that would be created? It
isn't in the emacs directory tree as far as I can
tell.

> Here's the ldb-config.lua file:
> 
> local FNLN = 'cmd /c ""u:\\program
> files\\emacs\\emacs\\bin\\emacsclientw.exe" '..
>              '--eval '..
>              '"(let ((buffer (find-file-noselect
> %s)) '..
>              '       (pop-up-frames nil) '..
>              '       (display-buffer-reuse-frames
> t)) '..
>              '   (set-buffer buffer) '..
>              '   (select-window (display-buffer
> buffer nil 0)) '..
>              '   (goto-line %d))""'
> local osexec = os.execute
> 
> -- Open an emacs window and allow 1 second for it to
> open before the first
> line
> -- is reached.
> --osexec('emacs --funcall=server-start &')
> --osexec('sleep 1')
> 
> local function quotefn(filename)
>   filename = ("%q"):format(filename)
>   return '\\'..filename:sub(1,-2)..'\\"'
> end
> 
> return {
>   PROMPT =  "(ldb) ",
>   PROMPT2 = "  >>> ",
> 
>   input = function(prompt)
>     io.write(prompt); return io.read"*l"
>   end,
> 
>   output = print,
> 
>   error = print,
> 
>   edit = function(filename, lineno)
>      return osexec(FNLN:format(quotefn(filename),
> lineno))
>   end,
> 
>   enterframe = function(state)
>     local filename = state.here.source:match"^@(.*)"
>     if filename then
>        osexec(FNLN:format(quotefn(filename),
> state.here.currentline or 1))
>     end
>   end,
> 
>   load_plugins = function()
>     require"ldb-break"
>   end
> }
> 
> 
>