Persistent readline history with perldb

[LanX]

For the afterworld:

In a CB-discussion we figured out a way to have a persistent input history for the perl-debugger,

alias pdb="rlwrap -H .perl_history perl -de0"

CAUTION: This alias will overwrite the python debugger "pdb", a price addicts like PythonFan would never pay!

you might need to disable readline-support in the .perldb file

parse_options("TTY=/dev/stdin ReadLine=0");

(should be possible to supply this last option on the CLI within the alias, but I couldn't figure it out within a posts timespan.)

Tested on Ubuntu Linux. Please post if and how it works for you!

PS: CB-Log for the fame

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>

[mirod]

How about using the available option for a history file:

echo "&parse_options('HistFile=$HOME/.perldb.hist');" > $HOME/.perldb

[LanX]

>How about using the available option for a history file:

Thanks, seems to work even better! :) ¹

Pitty that it's not mentioned in perldebug

At least rlwrap had the benefit to have the same interface like bash has...

1) First impressions: well C-d doesn't work anymore for exiting and the line numbering now starts where I left last time.