From: Andrei Alexandrescu (andrei@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 18:26:44 PST
It is quite pleasurable to work and debug code in Vortex and Whirlwind. I
have a couple of suggestions that would improve my experience quite some:
1. If the command line had history, my productivity would blow the roof
away. It doesn't, nor it has the most basic editing features on my system
(backspace doesn't work (I need to press ctrl-bcksp), arrows don't work,
etc.) Plus, a short mnemonic such as Ctrl-R "Repeat the last command" would
be great instead of typing next next next... etc. when debugging.
2. Next, step, etc. should have shorter mnemonics.
3. I'd like a command that just kills the process being debugged
immediately. Now I have to clear breakpoints and run to completion.
Awkward.
4. The "type 'help' for help" added line was very useful exactly for the
first time I used the debugger. After that it became unnecessary clutter.
5. A 'nextline' command that breaks not to the next command, but to the
next line in the debugger would be great.
6. This would be fantastic: I want to 'next' all message sends that belong
to other files and 'step' into all message sends that belong to the file
I'm in. A command like 'filestep' would be wonderful.
As Craig said, these are just things that I could do myself, so this is a
note for my future self (when I'll hopefully have more time... such as
after I finish writing my thesis many, many years from now) as much as a
request for opinions on whether you consider these worthwhile additions.
Andrei
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