[NTG-context] Re: your favourite ConTeXt debugging tools

On 12 Sep 2024, at 13:57, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Which are your hidden gems or favourite tools? [snip]

The most effective debugging tool for me is \starthiding ... \stophiding. (Not sure whether that says more about the feature or my Context writing skills!) Maybe out of scope for this email thread but I’d like to see “Debugging” added as a category on the “Basics” wiki page and some of the things under “Further Reading” moved into it, because I think it would be helpful to newcomers to have debugging feature more prominently and the Basics page seems to be the right place for that. There’s an incomplete page of the same name (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debugging). I feel that if it were completed it would become a huge long page that would be better split into several smaller pages - and the links to those smaller pages be placed on the revised Basics page. Perhaps, your updated list of directives, Hraban, could also go there? (There’s also https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Visual_Debugging which doesn’t overlap with what you’re doing but just serves to show that there is a lot of debugging information scattered about. It oo could also become a very long page and some thoughts on how to best structure it would be helpful.) Does anyone have any objections, thoughts? — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK