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Where is the debugger? #2078

Closed Adrian-Hawryluk closed 1 year ago

Adrian-Hawryluk commented 1 year ago

I know that there used to be a debugger button here. Going to Google and typing in site:regex101.com debugger does get me to a debugger screen, but for the life of me, I can't find a debugger link on the page!

Can it be made more prominent please?

Thx.

working-name commented 1 year ago

Hello @Adrian-Hawryluk

The debugger link is only going to be active on the left hand sidebar if you have PCRE selected. The other engines do not provide a debugging feature.

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Adrian-Hawryluk commented 1 year ago

Ah, I didn't see that. Though, from an UX perspective, even now that I see it, why it's disabled isn't obvious. Perhaps some sort of tooltip should indicate why it's not available, or have it enabled and have a popup saying that debugger is only available for PCRE?

Having it just disabled without reason makes for a poor UX.

firasdib commented 1 year ago

@Adrian-Hawryluk Great point, I will add a tooltip.

tomhundt commented 9 months ago

OMG. This has been driving me nuts!! I've been working on Python, mostly, so this makes me sad.