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From: inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl and pttys
Keywords: ptty
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.235021.19961@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 23:50:21 GMT
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The question was raised about using perl-d inside emacs.

I thought I had a way, but I don't. I regularly run perl scripts on emacs
buffers, and it works really slick. I set a mark, advance to the area in
question, and fast-filter-region {the script}. This works for the stuff I
normally do, but when I set the -d, whoo-boy! I got knocked into the 0-zone.

It also fails if I set up a shell internal to emacs. I was hoping the debug
messages would go to the shell window, but alas no. STDOUT it is, and I am
not sufficiently emacs conversant to change that. I suppose one ramification
is that any perl script that is talking to STDOUT will fail inside emacs.
-- 
Gary Benson    -=[ S M I L E R ]=-   -_-_-_-inc@fluke.tc.com_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

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