document updated 12 years ago, on Jun 12, 2012
IMHO, Devel::DumpTrace is one of the best of the various trace tools.
sending trace to a log file
DUMPTRACE_FH=/tmp/dumptrace perl -d:DumpTrace ....
viewing logs in Vim ($Devel::DumpTrace::TRACE == 3)
:set nowrap " needed because some lines get OBNOXIOUSLY long
:match IncSearch /^[^>].*/ " make it easy to distinguish between DumpTrace lines and non
:" conceal
:syntax match NonText "^.\{-}:\d\+:\[[^\]]*\]:" conceal
:set conceallevel=2
:set concealcursor=nc " concealed text is hidden, except for in visual mode