Revert change 23843.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldebug.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod
index bde6701..6934652 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldebug.pod
+++ b/pod/perldebug.pod
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ Any command not recognized by the debugger is directly executed
 (C<eval>'d) as Perl code in the current package.  (The debugger
 uses the DB package for keeping its own state information.)
 
+Note that the said C<eval> is bound by an implicit scope. As a
+result any newly introduced lexical variable or any modified
+capture buffer content is lost after the eval. The debugger is a
+nice environment to learn Perl, but if you interactively experiment using
+material which should be in the same scope, stuff it in one line.
+
 For any text entered at the debugger prompt, leading and trailing whitespace
 is first stripped before further processing.  If a debugger command
 coincides with some function in your own program, merely precede the
@@ -694,7 +700,7 @@ This module should implement a method named C<new> that returns an object
 with two methods: C<IN> and C<OUT>.  These should return filehandles to use
 for debugging input and output correspondingly.  The C<new> method should
 inspect an argument containing the value of C<$ENV{PERLDB_NOTTY}> at
-startup, or C<"/tmp/perldbtty$$"> otherwise.  This file is not 
+startup, or C<".perldbtty$$"> otherwise.  This file is not 
 inspected for proper ownership, so security hazards are theoretically
 possible.
 
@@ -1008,6 +1014,12 @@ L<Dumpvalue>,
 and
 L<perlrun>.
 
+When debugging a script that uses #! and is thus normally found in
+$PATH, the -S option causes perl to search $PATH for it, so you don't
+have to type the path or `which $scriptname`.
+
+  $ perl -Sd foo.pl
+
 =head1 BUGS
 
 You cannot get stack frame information or in any fashion debug functions