chad fowler wrote:

>--- Mark Slagell <ms / iastate.edu> wrote:
>
>>Some kind soul here want to give me a 100 words or
>>less overview of how 
>>to use the emacs support in the debugger? (or point
>>me to it if it exists?)
>>
>
>Mark,  are you wanting to know how to *enable* emacs
>support on the debugger command line?  Or is it
>already enabled, and you just want to know what it
>gives you/how to use its features?
>
>Chad
>

Chad,

When I run a ruby debug session from the command line, I see the "emacs 
support available" message but don't know what that support is.  I do 
normally use emacs for editing my scripts, and am set up with ruby-mode 
and inf-ruby so I get the syntax highlighting and can run irb in the 
second window, send it bits of code to evaluate and so on.  What I don't 
know is how the debugger ties into this.  What encapsulates what - do 
you run the debugger from the command line and it can somehow invoke 
emacs, or can you start a debugging session from within the emacs 
inferior process and get some kind of integration with the code editing 
that way?  I take it from your question, that it's the debugger that 
invokes emacs and not the other way around?

Thanks for replying.

  Mark