Re: [ANN] debug.lua 0.11

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:58 AM,  <gz@tset.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this message is to announce the availability of debug.lua 0.10.
>> debug.lua is a terminal based standalone frontend for mobdebug,
>> that runs on Linux and MacOS X and probably other Unixen. Because
>> it is terminal based, it is navigated only with the keyboard, but it
>> does feature source navigation and a display for expressions that
>> change as you step through the source.
>>
>> New in version 0.11:
>>
>> * added simple config files to change the colors used by debug.lua
>> * fixed a bug where the output of the '=' command was getting formatted
>>   on a weird (and also wrong) way
>>
>> You can get debug.lua from http://www.tset.de/debug.lua
>>
>> or via luarocks install debug.lua.
>
> I'm having trouble finding good debugging for Lua on FreeBSD.
> ZeroBrane requires some extensive porting (I got it working ONCE and
> then killed my image. Paul offered to help but I don't have time to
> reproduce) and the Jetbrains IDEA plugin crashes after about 3-6 step.
> I'll try this on TrueOS (FreeBSD-CURRENT) and get back to you.

Hi, this works really well so far on FreeBSD and it's super simple to
use. Thanks Gunnar!

Russ