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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Texinfo doc for GDB-UI
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:10:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E18RzsM-0004uc-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15882.19771.90811.285810@nick.uklinux.net> (message from Nick Roberts on Thu, 26 Dec 2002 00:28:43 +0000)

    + @node Breakpoints Buffer
    + @subsubsection Breakpoints Buffer
    + 
    + This buffer

Say explicitly which buffer you mean.  The text should never refer
back to the section title in that way.

		  allows control

That's clumsy writing--can you make it smoother?

				 of the breakpoints which have been set
    + previously

That's the useful info for the user.  It says what this feature does.

		 and uses the output from the GDB command @ref{Set Breaks,,
    + info breakpoints, gdb, The GNU debugger}.

That's implementation info; it should not be stated here at all,
because it is not relevant for the readers who will use GDB-UI.

      There are three commands
    + available :

That's not very clean.  It is better to say,

  There are three special commands in the breakpoints buffer:

Do you see why that reads better?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-27 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-26  0:28 Texinfo doc for GDB-UI Nick Roberts
2002-12-26 14:26 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-12-27 19:10 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-23 21:54 Nick Roberts
2002-12-24 12:43 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-12-24 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-25 14:48   ` Andreas Schwab
2002-12-25 17:47     ` Alex Schroeder
2002-12-26  7:49     ` Richard Stallman

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