I'm a bit leery of going down this road:
- If there's a bug in how I render logs graphically that could be
extremely misleading. Perhaps this suggests that the code to log
things should be significantly simpler than the code that might be
debugged. If writing the debug helper requires all my smarts I'm not
smart enough to debug using the helper, etc. Given this idea, the fact
that I'm copying production code into the logging helper is
concerning.
- There's a question of what code it's ok for logging helpers to depend
on. This is an issue shared with tests. I often implicitly (and
without meaning to) assume the presence of some well-tested helpers
when writing tests. If those helpers ever break I can get into a
rabbit hole of debugging. This problem might be even more insidious
with logging helpers that will give me no indication when they break.
Still and all, it's cool to see menus in my logs. Let's see if it's
useful.
In the fullness of time, I'll want to remember previous file, type to
filter, etc. But for now just don't forget where you were. This is
helpful because I'm often working on either the run side or the source
side, and just starting out on the right side shaves off a lot of
keypresses.
I'm starting to edit the sources from within the app in ernest. First
question: why does the file navigation menu skip some files? These
prints answer the question.
Kartik K. Agaram