From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gdb --args does not work in emacs/src ...
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:53:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmyq71lmx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802111521.m1BFLcuE015301@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:21:38 -0800")
>> > ... because .gdbinit overwrites args:
>> >
>> > set args -geometry 80x40+0+0
>> >
>> > this is annoying when one wants to start the debugger with specific
>> > arguments on the command line.
>>
>> I guess it guarantees that everyone is debugging Emacs under more similar
>> conditions. You can always comment that line out in your version.
> Sure I've been doing that for a long time, but it would be even better
> if I didn't have to do it.
> Is it possible to append to args?
> Or maybe only set it if it's not already set?
I always specify the args directly to the "run" command, so the "set
args" is only problematic when I want to run Emacs without any argument
which is rare when debugging.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-11 16:53 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 [this message]
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
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