Trying debugger.lua with a sexp (2025)

1. Introduction and trying it

If you:

• have Emacs, with eev installed - for example, with "Trying eev with a sexp"
• are on a Unix system, like Linux or MacOs,
• have lua5.2 installed - for example, by this,
• know how to do copy and paste in Emacs,

then your should be able to run the tutorial that comes with debugger.lua with this sexp:

(find-anggwget "LUA/2025-lua-debugger-tutorial")

More precisely, you need to:

• copy the sexp above to your notes,
• execute it with `M-e',
• type `f8' on each line of the buffer "2025-lua-debugger-tutorial".

You should see something like this:

In the original tutorial you need to read the instructions that appear on the screen and then type some commands, like `w', `s', `n', etc; in my eepitch-based version of the tutorial you can start by running everything very quickly with a series of `f8's, just to check that everything works and to see how things look like... and then you can run everything again more slowly, reading everything that the original tutorial says.

2. Tested on real people!

Thanks to Gabriel Lacerda Caldi for testing this! 😊