690569 - Evaluating declarations in Scratchpad makes it oddly unresponsive

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 679467

(DevTools :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

If I open a ScratchPad, type the text

var enterCount = "hi";

and hit Ctrl-l, I get no feedback at all. If I then type, on the next line,

enterCount

and hit Ctrl-l, I again get no feedback. If I then type, on the next line,

enterCount = 0

and hit Ctrl-l, I again get no feedback.

Even if something evaluates to 'undefined', Ctrl-l should at least do something to indicate that it did it.  "/* ok */" would be fine. :)

This may or may not be relevant to the resolution of this bug, but it'd also be nice to have some indication of what ScratchPad actually tried to parse when I just hit Ctrl-l without selecting the text first. (Is it always that present line? Can't I type multi-line things and evaluate them, or must I select first?)

Comment 1

[Dave Camp (:dcamp)]

We're doing developer tool prioritization, filter on 'brontozaur'
to ignore the spam.

Comment 2

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Falsy values are currently not displayed by Scratchpad when code is evaluated. We need to fix this. Thanks for your report!