Unix Programming - Combining Tools with Emacs - Emacs and Runtime Debugging
Emacs and Runtime Debugging
For catching runtime errors, Emacs
offers similar integration with your symbolic debugger — that
is, you can use an Emacs mode to set
breakpoints in your programs and examine their runtime state. You run
the debugger by sending it commands through an
Emacs window. Whenever the debugger stops
on a breakpoint, the message the debugger ships back about the source
location is parsed and used to pop up a window on the source around the
breakpoint.
Emacs's Grand Unified Debugger mode
supports all the major C debuggers:
gdb(1),
sdb(1),
dbx(1),
and
xdb(1). It
also supports Perl symbolic debugging using the perldb
module, and the standard debuggers for both
Java and
Python. Facilities built into Emacs Lisp
itself support interactive debugging of Emacs Lisp
code.
At time of writing (mid-2003) there is not yet support for
Tcl debugging
from within Emacs. The design of Tcl is
such that it seems unlikely to be added.
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