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From: Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Can pdb (Python debugger) in Emacs be as efficient as a graphical debugger outside of Emacs that uses a mouse?
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:53:51 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af31544a-1ca1-4a17-bb7e-6cad1eb35517@googlegroups.com> (raw)

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


             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-01  5:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01  5:53 Chris Seberino [this message]
2015-02-01  9:08 ` Can pdb (Python debugger) in Emacs be as efficient as a graphical debugger outside of Emacs that uses a mouse? Andreas Röhler
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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