From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:04:29 +0000 Message-ID: <87wqgqj8he.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <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> <83a9dn55m5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392897892 27544 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2014 12:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, forcer@forcix.cx To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 20 13:04:59 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 1WGSN7-0004F0-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:04:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGSN6-0005yB-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:04:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43289) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGSMy-0005wM-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGSMr-0003ln-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:44689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGSMr-0003k9-5i; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:04:41 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129]) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1WGSMl-0007Ei-Fx; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:04:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost (jangai.ncl.ac.uk [10.66.67.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s1KC4T9P013606 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:04:30 GMT In-Reply-To: <83a9dn55m5.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:17:54 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 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:169782 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. GDB has an interface for interacting with programmers. Emacs is a text editor; I think that there are some people using it just because of org-mode. So, different things, I think. Phil