On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Richard Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Heiko, > >> I could imagine $DB::single can be set to 3 for this 'accelerated' >> stepping. >> > It's a good idea. > >> May I reserve the capital N for that command? >> > Nearly :-) > > I only mean you could use either 'nn' or 'N', equally. To be honest, the > former appeals a little more as an extention to the existing command, while > the latter seems to be a bit more distinct, although I don't actually have > another suggestion for the latter at the moment either. If you implement it > though, I suspect you can use any letter you choose, certainly at first... >
Hello, +1 on that. I like the idea of `nn' rather than 'N'. It's nicely in line with `-vvv' being ridiculously verbose in many GNU utils. Spiros Denaxas > -- > Richard Foley > Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen > > http://www.rfi.net/ > > On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:33:25 Heiko Eißfeldt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> often during single-stepping I am missing a command like 'n' to step >> over not only subroutine calls, but also complete map and grep-commands. >> >> Example: >> >> Instead of >> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:4): my @a = (1..10); >> DB<1> n >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:7): print "found\n"; >> >> I would like to use >> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:4): my @a = (1..10); >> DB<1> N >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:6): if (0 < scalar grep { $_ == 9 } @a) { >> DB<1> >> main::(perldb_demo.pl:7): print "found\n"; >> >> How could that be done? >> >> I could imagine $DB::single can be set to 3 for this 'accelerated' >> stepping. >> >> May I reserve the capital N for that command? >> >> Thanks, >> Heiko >> -- >> >
