On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

Alan STONE wrote:
>
> I tried \tracingmacros=1 but that's not what I'm looking for.
\tracingassigns=1 is as close as you can get.

Considering the enormous amount of information these \tracing* commands blurp into the log file, I think I'll read Tolstoy's "War and Peace" instead. ;O)

Otherwise, you will end up with extremely dangerous constructs
like this trick that may very well interfere with what you are
trying to debug:

\let\normaldef\def
\def\dumpDEF
{\immediate\write16
{\expandafter\string\theDEF=\expandafter\meaning\theDEF}}
\unexpanded\normaldef\def#1% yes, this redefines \def!
{\normaldef\theDEF{#1}\afterassignment\dumpDEF\normaldef#1}

Thanks a lot Taco. This is better already, though still too much information in the log file to be user friendly.

Would it be possible to restricts the output to the \def'\s which begin with specific characters, for example "my" as in \def\my* ?

Or...

Do you know some tool (Windows/Linux) which enables to filter these from the

log file into a text file, or delete the unwanted ones from the log file ?

Best,

Alan