Unable to start up Zero Brane

[Nishanthi-Ramakrishnan]

I added the line "debugger=false" to one an empty file in ZeroBrane and since then, I am unable to open up Zerobrane, it shows an error msg.

src/editor/debugger.lua:17: attempt to index field 'debugger' (a boolean value)

stack traceback:
[string "Initializer": 1 in function '__index'
src/editor/debugger.lua:17: in main chunk
[C]: in function 'dofile'
src/main.lua:597: in main chunk
[string "Initializer"]:1 in function <[string "Initializer"]:1>
[C]: in function'xpcall'
[string "Initializer"]:1 in main chunk

Since then, i have replaced the entire folder of ZeroBrane, yet still same error message.
I deleted the initi file of ZeroBrane under App/Roaming and yet, the message pops up.

Not sure how.

What do I do? Kindly advise

[pkulchenko]

You have overwritten the default configuration of the debugger table, which prevented the IDE from launching. You can open user.lua file where you added that configuration and comment it out. This should allow the IDE to start. What were you trying to achieve with that change? debugger is a table that holds a variety of settings that configure debugging support in the IDE (as described here: https://studio.zerobrane.com/doc-general-preferences#debugger).

I will think of a way to make the IDE more robust to this type of configuration changes.

[Nishanthi-Ramakrishnan]

Basically, I was trying to run a Lua file given by my senior. It was super hanging. Then, I saw it entered debugging mode automatically whenever I tried to run. So, i wanted to stop the debugging temporarily unless i wanted it to run and tried out that online hack.

this is the user.lua

--[[--
Use this file to specify System preferences.
Review [examples](+C:\Program Files\MoffattNichol\shared\tools\ScriptEditor\cfg\user-sample.lua) or check online documentation for details.
--]]--
editor.autoactivate = true
editor.usewrap = false

--default.interpreter = "StartDebugger"
debugger.runonstart = true
debugger.linetobreakpoint = true

outline.sort = true
outline.showonefile = true
outline.showmethodindicator = true

search.autohide = true
singleinstance = true

path.lua = os.getenv("flexterm_install_root_path")..'/shared/libs/luajit/luajit.exe'
path.torch = os.getenv("flexterm_install_root_path")..'/shared/libs/luajit'

The debugger=false i added is nowhere found in this file and other files