DB::Color - Colorize your debugger output
Version 0.20
Put the following in your $HOME/.perldb file:
use DB::Color;
Then use your debugger like normal:
perl -d some_file.pl
If you don't want a $HOME/.perldb file, you can do this:
perl -MDB::Color -d some_file.pl
If the NO_DB_COLOR environment variable is set to a true value, syntax highlighting will be disabled.
No, sorry. It's a combination of bad Windows support for ANSI escape sequences and bad debugger design.
When using the debugger and when you step into something, or continue to a breakpoint in a new file, the debugger may appear to hang for a moment (perhaps a long moment if the file is big) while the file is syntax highlighted and cached. The next time the debugger enters this file, the highlighting should be instantaneous.
You can speed up the debugger by using the perldbsyntax program which is included in this distribution. It will pregenerate syntax files for you.
Syntax highlighting the code is very slow. As a result, we cache the output files in $HOME/.perldbcolor. This is done by calculating the md5 sum of the file contents. If the file is changed, we get a new sum. This means that syntax highlighting is very slow at first, but every time you hit the same file, assuming its unchanged, the cached version is served first.
Note that the cache files are removed after they become 30 (but see config) days old without being used. If you use the debugger regularly, commonly debugged files will load very quickly (assuming they haven't changed).
If you prefer, you may only want to have some of your projects "colorized". If so, you can do something like this:
use DB::Color sentinel => '.colorize';
If an if the .colorize sentinel (or whatever you named it) does not exist, DB::Color will not be used.
.colorize
DB::Color
To use DB::Color effectively, I recommend the following:
$ cpanm DB::Color $ echo "use DB::Color sentinel => '.colorize'" >> ~/.perldb # cd to project you want to colorize and create the sentinel $ touch .colorize # colorize the project. This will likely take a long time $ PERL5LIB=lib:t/tests perldbsyntax
At that point, you're almost good to go. However, as you're rapidly changing files, the debugger will still probably be very slow. Instead, create a watcher to watch your project directories and rehighlight any files which have been created or modified. An example of a watcher program is the examples/colorize program included with this distribution.
You can optionally configure DB::Color by creating a $HOME/.perldbcolorrc configuration file. It looks like this:
[core] # the class that will highlight the code highlighter = DB::Color::Highlight # Any cache file not accessed after this number of days is purged cache_max_age = 30 # where to put the cache dir cache_dir = /users/ovid/.perldbcolor
The above values are more or less the defaults for this module. They are all optional.
This is only a proof of concept. In fact, it's fair to say that this code sucks. It's not very configurable and has bugs. It's also going to possibly be a memory hog, as if the debugger wasn't bad enough already.
Curtis "Ovid" Poe, <ovid at cpan.org>
<ovid at cpan.org>
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color/issues. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc DB::Color
You can also look for information at:
Bug tracker (report bugs here)
https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color/issues
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/DB-Color
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/DB-Color
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/DB-Color/
Github
http://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color
Thanks to Nick Perez, Liz, and the 2012 Perl Hackathon for helping to overcome some major hurdles with this module.
Copyright 2011 Curtis "Ovid" Poe.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
To install DB::Color, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm DB::Color
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install DB::Color
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.