Question

I use vim + xdebug to debug php. If the debug operation waste a long time, vim will lost the connection with xdebug, and I have to restart the debug by press F5 and do it from the first step again. So how can I set a longer time for the debug procedure?

Answer 1

The 5 second timeout is hard-coded in debugger.py. You can increase it by modifying the following line:

  def accept(self):
    print 'waiting for a new connection on port '+str(self.port)+' for 5 seconds...'
    serv = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    try:
      serv.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
      serv.bind(('', self.port))

      # Set a higher timeout here...
      serv.listen(5)
      (self.sock, address) = serv.accept()
    except socket.timeout:
      serv.close()
      self.stop()
      print 'timeout'
      return

In my plugin version, that happens to be line 556 of debugger.py. If your differs, just search in Vim for 5 or second.

Update:

Also found it at line 666

  def __init__(self, port = 9000, max_children = '32', max_data = '1024', max_depth = '1', minibufexpl = '0', debug = 0):
    """ initialize Debugger """

    # Probably need to increase here too...
    socket.setdefaulttimeout(5)
    self.port       = port
    self.debug      = debug