Why does the following run with no problem but cause a SEGV in debug mode (Tk::Text seems to have an issue with regexp searches)? We want to be able to use the debugger to clean up a perl Tk editor with 20000 lines of code. This tool called Guiguts is used to produce thousands of eBooks for Project Gutenberg each year. First priority is to work around the SEGV; second is to fix the SEGV. Thanks to those who suggested in response to an earlier post (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=950595) that I use Devel::ptkdb and Devel::ebug but I really want IDE integration. 
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use Tk;
$topWin = MainWindow->new();
my $text = $topWin->Text();
$text->insert("end", "Type text into this window");
print $text->search("-exact", 'e', '1.0', 'end')."\n";
print $text->search("-regexp", 'e', '1.0', 'end')."\n";
$text->pack();
MainLoop();

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