From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdb --args does not work in emacs/src ...
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85r6fbzky6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JQkhj-0006Dh-OA@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:41:19 -0500")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:22:15 -0500
>> Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> I don't know why .gdbinit specifies --geometry.
>> I would not object to removing that.
>
> I don't know either, but it's there since before Emacs 19.34.
That would suggest that it may be from before the time where window
managers had their own ideas and databases about the best geometry.
So it might be an actual improvement to remove it now, even though it
might have had some raison d'être at one point of time.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-17 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-11 6:32 gdb --args does not work in emacs/src Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 7:56 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-11 15:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-11 17:09 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-11 16:59 ` Tom Tromey
2008-02-11 19:51 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-15 22:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-02-15 22:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 13:22 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-17 15:01 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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