From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: GUD/GDB in emacs Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:20 +1200 Message-ID: <18558.35552.614662.571215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216252675 17319 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 23:57:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:57:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Richard G Riley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 17 01:58:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJGtP-0008TS-5r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:58:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJGsW-00013r-LD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJGsE-00012x-Lj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJGsC-00010w-74 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55248 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJGsB-00010c-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:28 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.25]:43436) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJGsA-0000w1-7i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (251.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.251]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0A42F43A1; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:22 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5C3158FC6D; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:21 +1200 (NZST) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.2.50.3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55666 Archived-At: > When using GUD, can one embed a dereference into one of the panes? I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Maybe expand a node in situ in the locals buffer, for example. > Currently I can only see *p, for example, if I make it a watch point and > enable the speedbar which is a horrendous waste of screen real > estate. If ECB gets integrated into Emacs, I plan to use tree-buffer.el for watch expressions instead of the speedbar but I think that they will always need their own buffer. > Sure I can "display *p" in the *gud* buffer but thats pretty > horrible since it all scrolls past. Any hints or tips and/or references > to good GUD tutorials appreciated. I think some debuggers use tooltips to expand expressions but I'm not sure how that works. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob