how can I set up the perldebugger to log the history?

LanX    2011-04-12 17:01:38 UTC

LanX aksed before googling...

tye    2011-04-12 17:02:40 UTC

perl debugger readline rather sucks, IME. Several times I've managed to get it working, but not recently (except on Win32)

tye    2011-04-12 17:03:48 UTC

the default behavior is almost as bad as the default behavior of CPAN.pm :)

ambrus    2011-04-12 17:05:07 UTC

I for one run programs that have a bad builtin readline-alike with no tab completion inside rlwrap instead, for that's often better than the builtin readline, and it's easier on me to have to learn just one readline variant. This includes GAP foremost,

ambrus    2011-04-12 17:05:31 UTC

because its builtin readline has very unusual bindings.

ambrus    2011-04-12 17:06:14 UTC

I think authors shouldn't bother with adding readline in their program unless they actually make it specialized for that program in some useful way, such as with custom tab expansion.

Corion    2011-04-12 17:06:20 UTC

Heh. Github is far too easy as a publishing platform :-) (second installment of App::ffeedflotr)

tye    2011-04-12 17:09:19 UTC

yes, I've been using rlwrap more. custom tab expansion should still be done w/in standard readline.

Corion    2011-04-12 17:10:24 UTC

I think I have/had readline+tab expansion working on 5.10/Win32 for one of my toy programs (the one to explore Moose).. Let me see if the Makefile.PL tells me the appropriate summoning ...

tye    2011-04-12 17:10:44 UTC

ah. red = 'pass', green = 'fail'. how intuitive, Corion q-:

LanX    2011-04-12 17:10:46 UTC

How to use? rlwrap -l .perl_history perl -de0?

ambrus    2011-04-12 17:11:16 UTC

tye: color blind friendly setting

tye    2011-04-12 17:12:00 UTC

perl -d doesn't read command from stdin, however. so I don't think rlwrap is easy to use with the perl debugger.

LanX    2011-04-12 17:12:28 UTC

well the input IS logged ...

Corion    2011-04-12 17:12:32 UTC

Term::ShellUI seems the thing to summon from the deep - at least then I get tab expansion in that program.

tye    2011-04-12 17:12:46 UTC

yes, ambrus, having green mean 'fail' makes it much easy to see green than having green mean 'pass'

Corion    2011-04-12 17:13:06 UTC

tye: Hey! Setting colours is next on my list (for just that reason :-P )

yitzchak    2011-04-12 17:13:12 UTC

Pow-wow magic on the web? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5638991/sending-hex-characters-over-a-socket

Corion    2011-04-12 17:13:45 UTC

tye: A colleague had UI requirements of a red checkmark and a green cross :-)

LanX    2011-04-12 17:15:21 UTC

The web should invest more in color filters than xxx filters...

LanX    2011-04-12 17:18:17 UTC

LanX wants NSFD tags! (D=Daltonians) :)

yitzchak    2011-04-12 17:19:17 UTC

try parse_options("TTY=/dev/stdin ReadLine=false"); in .perldb

yitzchak    2011-04-12 17:19:22 UTC

(with rlwrap)

tye    2011-04-12 17:20:06 UTC

ah, good idea, yitzchak

yitzchak    2011-04-12 17:20:07 UTC

maybe it should be ReadLine=0; I don't appear to have working readline support at the moment, so I don't know

tye    2011-04-12 17:20:48 UTC

heh

LanX    2011-04-12 17:23:25 UTC

0 works almost I'm getting the last command in "binary" format

LanX    2011-04-12 17:25:06 UTC

^[[4m DB<2> ^[[4m DB<2> ^[[24m^[[1m$vi=666

LanX    2011-04-12 17:25:21 UTC

was $vi=666

LanX    2011-04-12 17:26:13 UTC

this only happens for logged entries from old sessions, the history for the current session seems to work well

LanX    2011-04-12 17:27:03 UTC

but thanks!

SuicideJunkie    2011-04-12 17:28:36 UTC

That looks like escape codes for color/bold console text

yitzchak    2011-04-12 17:28:44 UTC

take that, Ilya

yitzchak    2011-04-12 17:28:52 UTC

:)

LanX    2011-04-12 17:29:15 UTC

wait ...

LanX    2011-04-12 17:29:57 UTC

AHHH! it worklks I used the wrong option for rlwrap!

LanX    2011-04-12 17:30:22 UTC

rlwrap -H .perl_history perl -de0

LanX    2011-04-12 17:31:01 UTC

yitzchak++ ambrus++

LanX    2011-04-12 17:31:08 UTC

:)