On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 12:21 Europe/London, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Oh, agree that the fundamental things you do with a debugger are all there. It's more a case of how you like to do them. I like hovering my cursor over variables and seeing their current values in little tooltips. I like seeing a little pointer jumping around the code showing me what line is currently executing. I like setting breakpoints visually, not by knowing what line it is. And so on. I guess these boil down to the old graphical IDE vs not graphical IDE debate. But you'd have to agree that even die hard vi fans appreciate being able to see a terminal-full of their code at a time, rather than one line of it. Hence the ed comparison.You can always put a GUI wrapper around the perl debugger
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
Also you will find close integration between gdb, perl debugger and emacs (or better, IMO, xemacs)
The sort of windows debugger you describe are unusable in text mode.
The UNIX debuggers are usable in both text and graphical modes.
Sure in the graphical modes they don't tend to be quite as polished as the windows ones but then they are a *lot* cheaper.
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