[sf-perl] perlnow (emacs as a perl ide)

Joseph Brenner doom at kzsu.stanford.edu
Sun Mar 5 00:43:07 PST 2006


mehryar <mehryar at mehryar.com> wrote:

> I didn't attend the last talk and Im sure this was mentioned in the talk,

No, this wasn't covered.  Didn't have time to get into it.  

> but if not I wanted to point out that you can tie a mod_perl debugging
> session to emacs. The first time I did this I got a real kick out of
> walking through my perl code, step by step within emacs (i.e. in the
> editor not just a perl debugger command line) while it was still running
> in mod_perl!

> It was like watching your cgi run in slow motion while you could play with
> its internals to your hearts content.

> How to achieve this documented here:

> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-modperl/200405.mbox/%3Copr7nfpqz50jqqqv@pgweiss.sytes.net%3E

Looks like some good instructions... they've cleaned up the procedure 
since the last time I looked at this.



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