From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gdb --args does not work in emacs/src ... Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:05 +0100 Message-ID: <85r6fbzky6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200802110632.m1B6WGrG017818@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <18351.65436.105859.262490@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200802111521.m1BFLcuE015301@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200802111709.m1BH9mrX004400@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <18352.42833.554345.573615@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200802152243.m1FMheSv013549@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87ve4pyghh.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203260495 31398 80.91.229.12 (17 Feb 2008 15:01:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dann@ics.uci.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 17 16:01:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQl1h-000069-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQl1D-00063D-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:01:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQl19-000638-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQl16-00062b-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQl16-00062U-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-17.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.57]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQl0v-00076j-4R; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8A32BC00F; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.46]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77521ABB67; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-061-042.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.61.42]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579EF35E71B; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 52B461C4CE32; Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:05 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:41:19 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/5847/Sun Feb 17 12:26:12 2008 on mail-in-06.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:89349 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Richard Stallman >> 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 >>=20 >> 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'=EAtre at one point of time. --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum