From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:17:54 +0200 Message-ID: <83a9dn55m5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <52FCD2B4.5080006@yandex.ru> <52FD9F1D.50205@yandex.ru> <83mwhucg1h.fsf@gnu.org> <878ute589i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83d2iqc84m.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqgxkcr9.fsf@yandex.ru> <834n41db0d.fsf@gnu.org> <52FE2985.4070703@yandex.ru> <831tz5daes.fsf@gnu.org> <8738jlohd6.fsf@yandex.ru> <83txc1bl83.fsf@gnu.org> <5300189A.9090208@yandex.ru> <83wqgv9fbj.fsf@gnu.org> <20140216180712.236069f6@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <83sirj9cyp.fsf@gnu.org> <20140217203145.71a849f7@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <837g8t8ouc.fsf@gnu.org> <20140219080524.25689b6b@forcix.jorgenschaefer.de> <83k3cr58o2.fsf@gnu.org> <87ha7v9duv.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392833872 31254 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2014 18:17:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, forcer@forcix.cx To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 19 19:17:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGBiZ-0006be-36 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGBiY-0005g2-8P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49148) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGBiR-0005fu-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGBiK-00026G-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:47584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGBiK-00025y-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:17:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N1900B009CRX800@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:20:16 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N19005DD9LRSN80@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:20:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ha7v9duv.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169772 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: Jorgen Schaefer , > Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:06:16 +0000 > > The difference between Emacs and GDB is, I think, that GDB is all quite > low-level. Emacs covers a lot more ground from the C guts, to the user > facing code and documentation. The same is true for GDB: it is a complete program, and includes both low-level stuff, and user interaction and documentation.