From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T08:42:05+09:00
Subject: Re: dev-utils breakpoint

On Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 9:18:25 AM, Mauricio wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:13:14AM +0900, Michael Neumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When I want to return from an irb session caused by a breakpoint, and
>> use "exit", this exits the complete application. And debug_return is not
>> defined (as described in the documentation).
>> 
>>   require 'dev-utils/debug'
>>   p "a"
>>   breakpoint
>>   p "b"
>> 
>> This only prints "a".
>> 
>> The only working way is to use trow :debug_return.
>> 
>> I am using dev-utils (1.0.1-1) from rpa and ruby-1.8.2.

> You have to use ^d; as documented at
> http://dev-utils.rubyforge.org/DebuggingAids.html. It will consider
> adding that documentation to the RPA port.

Michael, is there any way I can make that documentation clearer?  Is
there any alterantive functionality you suggest?  What about somehow
forcing 'exit' to only exit IRB?  (Then 'exit!' could quit
altogether.)

Mauricio, I thought the doc was included in the RPA port already,
hence the redcloth and cstemplate build dependencies.  I'm not
complaining, just curious.

Cheers,
Gavin