From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@gnu.org>, Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdb-ui can't handle mutiple debugging sessions
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:44:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040912234436.GE17868@fencepost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jey8jft652.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:32:57AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> I have always found the best way to run two debugging sessions at the
> >> same time is to run two versions of Emacs. Whats the problem with this
> >> approach?
>
> I do all my work in a single Emacs session. Having to start a new
> instance would mean not being able to share buffers and various history
> lists, for example.
Yes. Requiring multiple emacs sessions is as best a poor workaround for
grotty code; sometimes it's a necessary for whatever reason, but it's almost
never desirable.
-Miles
--
"I distrust a research person who is always obviously busy on a task."
--Robert Frosch, VP, GM Research
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-12 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-12 20:06 gdb-ui can't handle mutiple debugging sessions Andreas Schwab
2004-09-12 22:12 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-12 22:49 ` Stefan
2004-09-12 23:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-12 23:44 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-09-13 3:17 ` Stefan
2004-09-14 1:33 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-14 2:19 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-09-15 3:39 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-15 4:10 ` Kenichi Handa
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-15 13:22 Zoltan Kemenczy
2004-09-15 21:08 Nick Roberts
2004-09-15 22:05 Zoltan Kemenczy
2004-09-15 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-09-16 0:05 Zoltan Kemenczy
2004-09-16 13:58 ` Stefan
2004-09-17 4:17 ` Nick Roberts
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