Print full evaluation error to output window #2030
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This is a PoC to demonstrate the REPL output behaviour I would like to see when editor evaluations throw errors. This is to address #2029 - please read that issue first to get a better idea of the problem this is trying to solve.
This is just a draft to show what I would like and to open the discussion on how we want this to work in practice. I'm sure people will have a lot of differing opinions on this one - probably requiring some calva configuration to control the behaviour.
This change will result in evaluation errors looking as follows:
Simple error:
More complex error with additional data:
This addresses the three main points of the issue raised:
:data
key.This implementation is quite primitive - I would guess some errors also contain other information besides
:data
that would need to be printed. This would need to be taken into account for a real implementation.Checklist
dev
branch. (Or have specific reasons to target some other branch.)published
. (Sorry for the nagging.)[Unreleased]
entry inCHANGELOG.md
, linking the issue(s) that the PR is addressing.ci/circleci: build
test.npm run prettier-format
)npm run eslint
before creating your PR, or runnpm run eslint-watch
to eslint as you go).Ping @PEZ, @bpringe, @corasaurus-hex, @Cyrik