NAME Devel::Trepan -- A new Perl debugger SUMMARY A modular, testable, gdb-like debugger in the family of the Ruby trepanning debuggers. It has extensive online-help, supports syntax highlighting via Syntax::Highlight::Perl::Improved, command completion and history via GNU ReadLine via Term::ReadLine::Perl or Term::ReadLine::Gnu, and interactive shell support via Psh or Devel::REPL. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install DESCRIPTION From a shell: $ trepan.pl [trepan-opts] perl-program [perl-program-opts] Or for those who prefer the traditional Perlish way: $ perl -d:Trepan perl-program [perl-program-opts] Calling the debugger from inside your Perl program using Joshua ben Jore's Enbugger: # This needs to be done once and could even be in some sort of # conditional code require Enbugger; Enbugger->load_debugger( 'trepan' ); # work, work, work... # Oops! there was an error! Enable the debugger now! Enbugger->stop; # or Enbugger->stop if ... AUTHORS Rocky Bernstein COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@cpan.org> This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The program is free software. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation (either version 2 or any later version) and the Perl Artistic License as published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. Please open the files named gpl-2.0.txt and Artistic for a copy of these licenses.