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Information Commands

Most of these commands print information about the current frame or function, but a few show general information.

help, ?
Displays a synopsis of debugger commands.

describe
Calls describe on the current function, displays number of local variables, and indicates whether the function is compiled or interpreted.

print
Displays the current function call as it would be displayed by moving to this frame.

vprint (or pp) $\,\{$$\}\,$verbosity
Displays the current function call using *print-level* and*print-length* instead of *debug-print-level* and*debug-print-length*. verbosity is a small integer (default 2) that controls other dimensions of verbosity.

error
Prints the condition given to invoke-debugger and the active proceed cases.

backtrace $\,\{$$\}\,$n

Displays all the frames from the current to the bottom. Only showsn frames if specified. The printing is controlled by*debug-print-level* and *debug-print-length*.



Peter Van Eynde 2000-02-08