From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using gdb (windows popping up) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 15:33:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190609115246.41281b50@mistral> <83ftoibofg.fsf@gnu.org> <20190609145921.0fc60f3c@mistral> <83ef42bmij.fsf@gnu.org> <20190609152705.705c806b@mistral> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="98553"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: jonetsu Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 09 21:33:37 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 1ha3ZP-000PW1-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 21:33:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ha3ZN-0004F0-V6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ha3ZE-0004Eh-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ha3ZB-00021h-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-oi1-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::22c]:46474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ha3ZB-000219-L4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-oi1-x22c.google.com with SMTP id 203so4788308oid.13 for ; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:33:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=EWsNBS8ikfEbvT9g7bY1FRDUkN7h2hDiPGPKjjqxMA4=; b=aqNzihQoyM+LpTwTvyWk686XijxYpIRvBYQ2bUP9393Mp6q8+Ld5EYdZ+QifYV6Y53 BJOdkr1oyFKNmJ/n52IknSB1/1D7A415c3XZD1HN/mOHpEKUsGKcdSii2f7u5JbabjB6 5vZ3f+byLBYYBCK12ZlKUYVkXL1Squ9XsC+HTZ9gh+i5Qk9529FC3y5a0cSU4f37Pdq5 d9tDGgQdqliYodS84Cc3SVHQL2iyxNzpV8WaJO+9oFVgj9U02dcD91PRiRz9wz/ItgUG TiYaIBIZDVc8Ytmz/z/6xeQ31YbpjoFSUi6Td2R/grG7Bdt+lvKCWTg8BNDViXsB/XMa ilkg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=EWsNBS8ikfEbvT9g7bY1FRDUkN7h2hDiPGPKjjqxMA4=; b=fsYqvds1b+tyvJ0gYJ7go7ndl1ijuVYdkJK6HUxU9bYjYzlYRpxhGMAISDpA++PWyX qOV0TxUf+MO+kerTqfJiRtEMJSeP19f4DZzgInZ1mLS5tGrD0MakX694KbiE0jMJkNHW vqgRVrebBQxSeqQxEhdip+wRwZtqqrp/3HM3Nnr/nzZETcsu5rsqWZZ/lszncLVrAk+g c+4BgIw8GRPpY7YexZCL0n4l4M/LT26VgWfoNm7l+9ApfQLth/SNGolEy1yMuZzr44XS Me+mGuN/P3fcGRzE1yL5XB7qN8b83KaLvLpRDwh8HLfFnQeqJmPbnD3HD56IEQ1fMmcw pscQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVw+btEd9cewYucAMburFTbRKQ4nnlUK/l/2hoeTSdNnkbHzcat 8erEzVwXlALESrxPa3E3MnrQbkATCCsZHmg++Cs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyvW7D0tqYphel4YlvqPZ23IblH8BfJctM7eEXcKaDhzwfyKIieLQMhfbQF1+eFgA3XY/WiLZG7UmweOFJi+H4= X-Received: by 2002:aca:a847:: with SMTP id r68mr8135490oie.69.1560108800232; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 12:33:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20190609152705.705c806b@mistral> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::22c 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:120880 Archived-At: On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 15:27, jonetsu wrote: > Yes, I've seen that the manual advises to uses M-x gdb in a distinct > frame. The problem with this is that while debugging I can consult > other non-gdb buffers, sometimes for a while, before doing the next > debugger step. Doing this on Linux switching to a different desktop is > easy, although I still prefer to have one emacs session where all the > files are, and not two of them. (I have no opinion on the gdb-many-windows settings, but) you seem to be conflating frames with "sessions" or "instances". A single Emacs instance/session can have multiple frames, i.e., it's the same set of buffers, variables, etc.