More questions about debugging

[Kalle Raiskila]

Continuing this message:
http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2004/1620


Is it possible to debug files instead of functions?
If I'm writing a file, say, temporary.m  as simply a list of commands 
(in contrast to a reusable function), it feels somewhat awkvard to have 
to define "function temporary()" just to be able to debug it.

Also, the dbstop-function seems to want the linenumber of executable
line, not the "real" line (which it returns). Well, its much simpler for
me (and propably all text-editors I know of) to tell which "real" line
I want the breakpoint at. To calculate which "command"-line it is, can 
be quite painful...(especially the way I write code ;) )

 Am I missing some option, or is it just impossible to do
dbstop("file.m", "<real-line-no>") ?

Thanks
Kalle Raiskila


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