From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-x gdb troubles Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:44:29 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16527.57197.463452.855021@nick.uklinux.net> References: <16518.51349.955232.751075@nick.uklinux.net> <16520.24451.292869.643063@nick.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083172684 4167 80.91.224.253 (28 Apr 2004 17:18:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 28 19:17:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIsgp-0002rq-00 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:17:43 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIsgp-0000iv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 19:17:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIsf3-0001TD-Jm for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:15:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIsbi-0000bW-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BIsQh-00063t-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.247.49.108] (helo=nick.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIsGG-0003Li-6B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 22CC875FDE; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:44:29 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22310 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22310 > > It could be split but, currently, the other debuggers couldn't use these > > other windows. > > AFAIU, they indeed don't use most of them, but they all use "a source > window", except that they just use pop-to-buffer to display it rather than > gdb-source-window. I don't quite follow as I removed gdb-source-window on 2004-04-08. > I personally like the use of pop-to-buffer over gdb-source-window because of > my Emacs setup so I'd like gdb-ui to be able to use this simpler gud > scheme, but I expect other people will like the gdb-source-window kind of > usage and will want it to be used for other gud modes as well. gdb-ui now just uses gdb-display-buffer (a variant of gud-display-buffer from gdba.el) Also if you create new frames for the different buffers, say through the menubar: Gud->GDB-Frames->Threads Breakpoints Stack ... then the bahaviour should be improved. > Hence a sort of merge. As said, I'm proposing this without having really > looked at the code, so it may be impractical. But I think we should move > in this direction. Are the changes that I have made in the direction that you are talking about? Nick