tl;dr .... :-|

Unfortunately I don't have the time to go into details ATM, but I think many modifications to perl5db.pl where unnecessary.

For instance you could have used persistent aliases instead of manipulating commands. The debugger has also an IDE interface to direct outputs to pipes.

If you can't get ptkdb running on your Mac because of TK version problems (which is really weird and merits a thread of its own) try giving emacs a try, which has more or less the reference implementation of debugger integration.

With Aquamacs you'll even get standard Mac behaviour.

Try M-x perldb.

For more tricks of how to patch the debugger please see the slides I linked in the thread I linked to before.

HTH :)

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

In reply to Re^3: homespun GUI Wrapper for the Perl Debugger with an auto-refreshing editor (BBEdit on Mac OS X) by LanX
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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