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NAME
Devel::PDB - A simple Curses-based Perl Debugger
SYNOPSIS
perl -d:PDB foo.pl
DESCRIPTION
PerlDeBugger is a Curses-based Perl debugger with most of the essential functions such as monitoring windows for paddlist, call stack, custom watch expressions, etc. Suitable for debugging or tracing complicated Perl applications on the spot.
FUNCTIONS
PerlDeBugger is still in development stage, not all of the planed functions have been implemented yet. Currently it can:
- step-over, step-in, step-out, run
- set/remove breakpoint
- automatic display of lexical variables
- add/remove custom watch expression
- show/open compiled files
TODO (sorted by priority):
- Stack Trace Window
- STDOUT/STDERR Window (currently STDOUT and STDERR are redirected to files stdout and stderr in the current directory)
- Immediate Window for executing arbitrary perl statement
- Load/Save debugger workspace (breakpoints, watch expressions, etc.)
KEYS
- Global
- F1
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Switch to the Source Code Window
- F2
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Switch to the Lexical Variable Window
- F3
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Switch to the Watch Window
- F5
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Continue execution
- F6
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Step Out
- F7
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Step In
- F8
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Step Over
- F9
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Toggle Breakpoint
- F10
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Show 'Compiled Files' Dialog
- F11
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Show 'Opened Files' Dialog
- Ctrl+Q
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Quit the debugger
- Ctrl+W
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Add watch expression
- Source Code Window
- UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT/PAGE UP/PAGE DOWN
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Move the cursor
- H/J/K/L/Ctrl+F/Ctrl+B
-
If you use VI, you will know
- /
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Search using a RegEx in the current opened file
- n
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Search Next
- N
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Search Previous
- Ctrl+G
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Goto a specific line
- Lexical Variable Window / Watch Window
- UP/DOWN
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Move the cursor
- ENTER
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Show the Data::Dumper output of the highlighted item in a scrollable dialog
- DEL
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Remove the highlighted expression (Watch Window only)
- Compiled File Dialog / Opened File Dialog
- TAB
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Toggle the focus between the file list and the filter
- ENTER
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Select the highlighted file or apply the filter to the file list
SEE ALSO
perldebug
AUTHOR
Ivan Yat-Cheung Wong <email@ivanwong.info>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2007 by Ivan Y.C. Wong
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.