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From: inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: But mine doesn't fail? (was Re: perl and pttys)
Keywords: ptty
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.015440.4995@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 01:54:40 GMT
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In article <1990Mar20.012137.4194@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:

>In article <1990Mar19.235021.19961@tc.fluke.COM>, inc@tc (Gary Benson) writes:
|| 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.

! I use perl -d all the time inside GNU Emacs (18.55), so I suspect the
! problem is OS-specific.  How about elaborating on your configurations
! under which it fails?
! 
! Mine works under Sunos4.0.3 on sun3's and sun4's with Perl 3.0
! patchlevel 15.  For example, here's the transcript of a "Perlshell"
! started with -de 0:

Me again. Our configuration is a VAX 11-750 running mt. Xinu More/BSD 4.3
and Unipress Emacs <mumble,,,numbers>.

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