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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs debugger for Perl PL36
Message-ID: <10282@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 8 Nov 90 01:34:06 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.154443.1121@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Nov7.154443.1121@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.uucp writes:
: That's a neat hack!
: 
:    X-Name: Ray Lischner
: 
:    If you don't like to change the standard perldb.pl, it is relatively
:    simple to copy the DB subroutine and two extra lines to your own
:    .perldb file.
: 
: Might it be possible to use a switch or something (like GDB does) so
: that perldb can tell whether it's running under Emacs or not?

This is undocumented, but at pl36 you can do this, or its equivalent:

    setenv PERLDB 'require "myperldb.pl"'

I haven't decided if that's the best way to handle it yet, so consider
it quasi-pre-deprecated.

Larry