From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 22984@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:18:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9gcemrj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8360wsiwv8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:27:07 +0200")
At 22:27 +0200 on Friday 2016-03-11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> How about the following variant?
>
> This will suggest the file name of the default binary to debug; if
> the suggested default is not the Emacs binary you want to debug,
> change the file name as needed.
>
> (This avoids the potentially confusing word "load", and also makes it
> clear we are talking about debugging Emacs, not some other program.)
Yes, that's better. It clearly states its meaning.
Did you see the following suggestion in my earlier message. [I wasn't
sure if you'd missed it, or if you'd decided it wasn't valid.] This was
with regard to etc/DEBUG not being about the Elisp debugger.
At 14:30 -0400 on Friday 2016-03-11, N. Jackson wrote:
>
> However, the file is named "DEBUG" and the title is "Debugging GNU
> Emacs", so it is by no means obvious that this is not the right file to
> look at.
[to find information about the Elisp debugger]
> So perhaps the title should be something like "Debugging GNU Emacs with
> GDB", and perhaps it should start out by saying something along the
> lines of
>
> This file is about debugging Emacs with GDB. For information about
> the Lisp debugger and about Edebug (the source-level debugger for
> Emacs Lisp programs), see the node "Debugging" in the Elisp manual.
Regards,
N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-11 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-11 15:18 bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG N. Jackson
2016-03-11 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 18:30 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-11 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 19:06 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-11 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 20:12 ` N. Jackson
2016-03-11 20:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 21:18 ` N. Jackson [this message]
2016-03-12 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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