How to enter debug mode again after changing a variable in REPL?

[friederikemeier]

Hi!

I am really stuck and just hope, someone will answer my dumb question.
I am trying to debug in julia for the first time... I'm an engineer and not used to using the console that much.

So I watched this debugger demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU0SmQnnGys

It took me a lot of further googling to realize that he uses a ` to get from the debug mode to normal mode, in order to change a variable.
Now that he's changed the variable, he uses a magic trick to enter debug mode again...

I would like to know, how he does it?
Thanks a lot already to anyone reading this and hopefully answering?

[friederikemeier]

Ok, accidentally found the answer.. How is this such a hidden information?

I used backspace.

May this help the next one!
Funny how hitting the keyboard randomly helped :)

[timholy]

Thanks for reporting this, @friederikemeier! I've reopened this because I agree it needs to be better documented. See if the pull request in #254 helps. (If you're unfamiliar with GitHub, click on "Files changed" to see what I changed.)

If you notice more of these issues, please submit more issues or add improvements of your own. The way I made that change was to navigate to the Debugger.jl home page, entered the src directory and then the commands.jl file, and clicked the pencil icon. More docs are here. Any of your changes will be vetted by a developer before being merged, so you can't possibly break anything.

[friederikemeier]

Thank you so much! This will definitely help the next one!
And actually I didn't know I could edit files on github without forking the repo, also nice new knowledge :)