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  • If you type 'h source' in the 5.8 debugger, you'll see

    source file Execute file containing debugger commands (may nest).

    So you don't need to do anything. Just put the commands you want into some file and then source file.

    If you want to actually write new debugger commands, take a look at Devel::Command: it lets you write Devel::Command::XXX modules to create a new 'xxx' command. Devel::Command::Viz, for instance, lets you use GraphViz::Data::Structure to visualize objects in dotty from inside the debugger (which what I wanted to do when I started down the trail of commenting the debugger back in 2002...).
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