From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x gdb : showing args Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:00 +0200 Message-ID: <878subokhz.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <20190608163041.265b135c@mistral> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="122754"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 08 23:06:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZiXs-000VmY-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZiXr-0001Oz-3M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60952) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZiXT-0001MU-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:06:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZiXS-000335-9l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56104 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZiXR-000307-6Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 17:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZiXO-000V7k-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ahj8bWkonKjB8PhO0ptzmLNP/s0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120850 Archived-At: jonetsu writes: > When doing a 'show args' when using gdb in emacs (M-x gdb) the args are > prefixed by that string: > > "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.