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GUD perldb improvements


From: Rob McMillin
Subject: GUD perldb improvements
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:08:28 -0800

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Tue Jun 13 2000 on porky.devel.redhat.com
configured using `configure  --mandir=/usr/man --infodir=/usr/info 
--prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --sharedstatedir=/var --with-gcc --with-pop 
--with-x-toolkit i386-redhat-linux-gnu'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

These are feature requests rather than bugs, but I believe they could be
implemented fairly readily.

1) When I type "M-x perldb", I'm asked "Run perldb (like this):".  I
   can't quote strings I might want to pass to perldb.  For instance, if
   I want to pass back an ISO-formatted time string (such as "2001-02-12
   15:03:22"), I can't do it because gud doesn't understand about
   quoting conventions.

2) Similarly, it would be useful if the tab key in the minibuffer when
   "Run perldb (like this):" was active were bound to
   comint-dynamic-complete or other electric key mechanism.  As it
   stands, I have to type in the entire path to every script I need to
   debug, unless I've debugged it before in this session.  This would
   be especially useful after you change directories.

3) Finally, if I need to pass additional command-line switches to Perl
   (such as the -T (data taint) switch), I can't do it in the
   minibuffer.  -T must occur before just about every other switch, and
   I have no control over the ordering of the switches.  In other words,
   it would be useful if there could be a "C-u M-x perldb" kind of magic
   that would allow me to see the REAL command line (complete with -I
   switches, which a ps -efw clearly tells me are present) and modify
   that.

Thanks for listening.

Recent input:
a b u g return C-x o C-v C-n C-x o C-h C-g C-x o M-x 
r e p o r t - e m C-g C-x o C-h i m e m SPC return 
C-v C-n C-n C-n C-n C-s b u g C-s return m return C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-l C-p C-p m return SPC C-v C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC 
C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC C-SPC C-l C-x o M-x r e p o 
r t - e m a c s - b u g return

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