From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can pdb (Python debugger) in Emacs be as efficient as a graphical debugger outside of Emacs that uses a mouse?
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:08:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CDED17.6020108@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af31544a-1ca1-4a17-bb7e-6cad1eb35517@googlegroups.com>
On 01.02.2015 06:53, Chris Seberino wrote:
> I tend to think Emacs can do many things more efficiently with the keyboard and without a mouse.
>
> I want to believe that is true for debugging but I'm not as sure.
>
> I've used DDD which allows one to quickly scroll through code and set breakpoints with a mouse. Furthermore, a second window is immediately available to display output.
>
> I'm not sure running pdb from a shell inside of Emacs can compete with that. Because pdb is command line driven it seems it will be faster.
>
> Is this something that is NOT faster inside of Emacs and actually BENEFITS from a mouse?
>
> cs
>
Basically Emacs should be able to display similar info which would be available from other environments.
Remains the question if it is implemented resp. configured accordingly.
Don't see the mouse-question at stake at all here.
It might help to have some example case, some screenshot, which info you expect at which point.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-01 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-01 5:53 Can pdb (Python debugger) in Emacs be as efficient as a graphical debugger outside of Emacs that uses a mouse? Chris Seberino
2015-02-01 9:08 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2015-02-01 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19092.1422781765.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-02 3:10 ` Chris Seberino
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