[olug] Perl Debugger

[Sam Tetherow]

Jay Hannah wrote:
> "Jon H. Larsen" wrote:
> 
>>Any recommendations for a GUI Perl debugger to run on Linux?
> 
> 
> I watched over a friends shoulder as he was playing around with Perl.NET
> in Visual Studio (Windows). We shared several "oh, that's kinda neat"
> moments. Colors, clickable breakpoints, syntax help, etc. It was all
> very slick. At first.
> 
> I guess I'm old fashioned. I've just never liked GUI programming
> environments. When I know what I'm doing and am trying to get work done
> their constant "helpfulness" annoys me. I seem to be in the minority in
> this opinion: I've noticed over the last couple of years I even have to
> religiously turn syntax help off in programs that used to be *text*
> editors. Like a grumpy old man I grumble/curse and turn vi/vim's colors
> off:
> 
>    :syntax off
> 
> Too grumpy for a 27 year old. -grin-
> 
> Good luck finding what you're looking for. (I recommend /bin/vi or
> C:\Windows\Notepad.exe for Perl development. -grin-)
> 
> Jay
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I was with you all the way up to the syntax highlighting ;)

Although I can do without the autoindent... (go figure, I am lazy 
everywhere else but this one just annoys the crap out of me)  And I 
wouldn't suggest C:\Windows for much of anything :)

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