GNU bug report logs - #14588
Clarify perldb doc string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Len Weisberg <Len <at> Weisberg.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:03:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.1

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 14588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Len Weisberg <Len <at> Weisberg.com>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 14588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14588: Clarify perldb doc string
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:29:28 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

>> It seems (by comparing with M-x perldb) that you are supposed to use:
>>
>> (perldb "perl -d /tmp/args.pl a b c")
>
> I think the doc string of perldb should be improved here.  For
> example, it talks about a parameter FILE which does not exist in the
> argument list.

Yup.  I've now rewritten it in Emacs 28, and said what COMMAND-LINE
should be.

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