Thanks for the encouragement...! 8-)

I've indeed looked into the debugger (perl5db.pl) where it's reading the caller info (near the beginning of sub DB) and I've patched my script into it right there. I didn't even have to change the $line variable as it's present with that name there already. ;-)

Of course it's still a dirty hack in its current form, but it suits me for the moment: The editor cursor indeed follows the debugger in lockstep, now even without having to insert a pre-prompt command.

Cool! :-)

Especially since the debugger now always points to the code in the editor right where it's ready to get fixed right away, just like a regular IDE. (I still have to switch windows in the editor when tracing into a different file for now, but the application window always remains in the background and updates there while I'm tracing Perl in the Terminal, so that's bearable for the moment.)

At a cursory glance I haven't seen an obvious "official" hook for this purpose in the debugger source yet, so even if my immediate need has now been satisfied, a cleaner way would still be interesting to know if somebody should happen to know one.

In reply to Re^2: Perl Debugger: Is there a variable with the current source line number being traced? by Shoveler
in thread Update: homespun GUI Wrapper for the Perl Debugger with an auto-refreshing editor (BBEdit on Mac OS X) (was: Perl Debugger: Is there a variable with the current source line number being traced?) by Shoveler

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