From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:36:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83tusdrgxm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o8iv3ac3.fsf@gnus.org> <56d1484e-6f41-575f-0fbb-fd2bd99ab152@yandex.ru> <87eejqnlxk.fsf@gnus.org> <875z52nlqa.fsf@gnus.org> <87lfdvjvx3.fsf@gnus.org> <871rflj3fh.fsf@gmail.com> <83lfdrrvmj.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7326"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, caiohcs0@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 22 16:37:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krjjZ-0001ne-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:37:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43572 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krjjY-0007H3-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:37:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krjiZ-00065A-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krjiZ-0005zH-FX; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2248 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krjiS-0000LO-65; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:36:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:34 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261498 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, caiohcs0@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:20:34 -0500 > > > I didn't interpret what he wrote to mean there's a problem. I > > interpreted it to mean he personally stopped using the Emacs GDB front > > end long ago. So he doesn't really say anything about gdb-mi.el, the > > current GDB front end in Emacs. > > I am not sure what he meant, but he seems to claim, in a vague way, > that it has had problems over the years. This might refer to real > problems. In case that is so, we should ask for details. He said that about gud.el, which is nowadays obsolete, as far as its GDB interface is concerned. We leave its GDB parts in Emacs only because in some rare cases using annotations works better with GDB than using the MI interface.