Re: how improve these "rough edges" to pdb (python debugger) on Emacs???....

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Christian Seberino wrote:

> Have you noticed when you try to launch pdb (python debugger)
> that it assumes pdb is in the current directory??


No, it assumes pdb is in exec-path (which is initialized from your PATH
environment variable).


> You must manually type this on Red Hat Linux....
> 
> /usr/lib/python2.2/pdb.py myfile.py
> 
> *** Is there someway to 1. hardwire the path to pdb and


(setq gud-pdb-command-name "/usr/lib/python2.2/pdb.py")


>                                     2. the filename to current buffer editing???


See my message Re: how to automate these steps in STARTING debuggers??? (gdb, 
pdb, etc.).  Just substitute "pdb" for "gdb".


> Finally, you must press "step" a few times to actually load your
> file and begin stepping thru it.  It would be nicer if file automatically
> was loaded and ready to be stepped thru.

Maybe you could put the appropriate commands into a .gdbinit file in the

source file's directory.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers