From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Executing Emacs commands when a gdb breakpoint is hit Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:39:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83o8uwvekv.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="72864"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 19:39:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ityRP-000Iu9-OB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:39:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59518 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ityRO-0000go-NG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ityR5-0000gS-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:39:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ityR5-0007pL-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:39:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1298 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ityR4-0004g0-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:39:34 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Skip Montanaro on Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:02:49 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122257 Archived-At: > From: Skip Montanaro > Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:02:49 -0600 > > On a more basic topic, I actually seem unable to cleanly terminate the > series of commands to execute upon hitting a breakpoint. For example, this > is what I see now (within an Emacs *gud-python* buffer): > > (gdb) comm 2 > Type commands for breakpoint(s) 2, one per line. > End with a line saying just "end". > >p c->c_filename > >p c->u->u_lineno > >end > > > >end > > C-c C-cQuit > > That is, I do what it says, end with a line saying just "end", but it > doesn't terminate. After trying that a second time, I gave up and I broke > back to the (gdb) prompt with C-c C-c. Seems like a bug to me. I'm using > 25.2.2 on Ubuntu 18.04. Upgrade to a newer Emacs. This problem was fixed in Emacs 26.2. A workaround is to use "commands" instead of its short form "comm".