From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x gdb : showing args
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 08:31:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftojcojc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878subokhz.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from Óscar Fuentes on Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:00 +0200)
> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:00 +0200
>
> > "Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is
> > [...]"
> >
> > Is it possible to not have this rather useless presentation string and
> > go immediately the args ? If not, the frame has to be expanded in
> > order to view what are the actual args, which is not as nice as seeing
> > them directly after doing 'show args'.
>
> That rather useless presentation string comes form gdb itself. Try it on
> a shell.
>
> AFAIU emacs merely sends the commands you type to gdb and prints its
> response.
Indeed. I suggest to file a feature-request bug report, to make the
output more reader-friendly. There's no reason why Emacs couldn't
reformat the output to make it nicer.
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2019-06-08 20:30 M-x gdb : showing args jonetsu
2019-06-08 21:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-09 5:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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