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| author | Jay Hannah <jhannah@omnihotels.com> | 2003-01-24 05:28:44 -0600 |
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| committer | hv <hv@crypt.org> | 2003-02-10 01:15:52 +0000 |
| commit | bea985324a3cd895f8e0a0c38e90ab3d09433415 (patch) | |
| tree | 9cbb13a71c45d3d5e9a9320053d7ef7a9b68bf6a /pod/perldebug.pod | |
| parent | 129318bdc5341dc6c9c199fa27cbfe9b42b96328 (diff) | |
| download | perl-bea985324a3cd895f8e0a0c38e90ab3d09433415.tar.gz | |
RE: perldebug.pod suggestion
From: "Jay Hannah" <jhannah@omnihotels.com>
Message-ID: <00b001c2c3ce$0c4716e0$4709a8c0@omarests2>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18683
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diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index dafa572840..8d2e42c1bb 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -891,6 +891,15 @@ in by Perl and may contain arbitrary commands, for security reasons, it must be owned by the superuser or the current user, and writable by no one but its owner. +You can mock TTY input to debugger by adding arbitrary commands to +@DB::typeahead. For example, your F<.perldb> file might contain: + + sub afterinit { push @DB::typeahead, "b 4", "b 6"; } + +Which would attempt to set breakpoints on lines 4 and 6 immediately +after debugger initilization. Note that @DB::typeahead is not a supported +interface and is subject to change in future releases. + If you want to modify the debugger, copy F<perl5db.pl> from the Perl library to another name and hack it to your heart's content. You'll then want to set your C<PERL5DB> environment variable to say |