From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .gdbinit Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:03:04 +1200 Message-ID: <17564.25880.696138.611174@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151100282 9629 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2006 22:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 24 00:04:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FttlH-0002c2-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:04:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FttlH-0000aZ-D1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fttl5-0000aK-KO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fttl2-0000Zd-MC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fttl2-0000ZZ-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:04:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FttwG-0007se-TC; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p423-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.111.169]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D984F76DE08; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:04:02 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 64E151D3550; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:03:06 +1200 (NZST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56133 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:35:53 +0200 > > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > > The file .gdbinit has such a large amount of useful commands that it > > > probably justifies a section in some manual, perhaps an appendix to > > > the ELisp manual. At the very least, we should have a text file > > > etc/SOMETHING which describes those commands and gives some advice > > > when to use them. > > > > I have added some information to etc/DEBUG. > > > > Please have a look. > > Thank you. I added a pointer to that description near the beginning > of the file. Following on from what Eli said in his first post, I think that it would be a good idea at some stage to put DEBUG into the Elisp manual assuming that size isn't an issue. The references to other manuals could then be made into hyperlinks. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob