Re: vim-debugstring - Debug printf()-style at the speed of light

On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 3:23:54 PM UTC, Richard Mitchell wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 2:25:59 AM UTC-5, Nikos Koukis wrote:
> > Hey vimmers, happy new year!
> >
> > This is a description to a plugin that I developed. This is my first plugin in Vim and I wanted to ask for some feedback, mainly:
> >
> > - Do you think it's in any way useful?
> > - Is there any similar plugin that I might have missed?
> > - Do you think of any way I could improve it?
> >
> > *debugstring* aims to automate standard debugging operations (e.g., find segfaults). It does that by facilitating the ubiquitous printf()-debugging i.e., scatter logging statements around the various code snippets that you want to test.
> >
> >
> > The default key-binding for dumping a logging directive is <Leader>ds. The logging statements are of the form:
> >
> > [<filename>:<line_of_logging_statement>] DEBUGGING STRING ==> <unique_number>
> >
> >
> > The form and syntax of the logging statements target the language at hand (e.g., use printf() in C/C++ but puts() in Ruby)
> >
> > Currently the following languages are supported:
> >
> > - C/C++
> > - Fortran
> > - Haskell
> > - Java
> > - javascript
> > - PHP
> > - Python
> > - Ruby
> > - Shell
> > - Vim
> >
> > You can find more information on Github..
> >
> > Github page: https://github.com/bergercookie/vim-debugstring
> > Vim.org: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5634
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nikos
>
> My C (not vim) solution for this is:
>
> #define BUGOUT( FMT, ... ) { \
> fprintf(stdout, "%s: %5d:%-24s:", __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__ ); \
> fprintf(stdout, FMT, ##__VA_ARGS__ ); \
> fflush (stdout); \
> }
>
> and is used as a standard printf(), i.e.:
> BUGOUT("text: %d %s\n", num, string ) // For example
>
> The output shows the filename, line number, and function the debug statement occurs. Always correct and easily found in the source.

That's a different thing though really...
The plugin is language independend and offers just a single mapping to dump either a specific string for the line at hand, or more recently the result of an arbitrary expression, and all this just using a single mapping.

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