Re: M-x gdb on a tty

[nickrob@snap.net.nz (Nick Roberts)]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > Is "M-x gdb" supposed to work correctly on a tty?

Are there problems apart from those with the menu-bar?

 > If it is, then I think I see some issues with the menu bar: portions
 > of it seem to get overwritten by GUD-specific strings that have a
 > different background color (perhaps a distant memory of the tool
 > bar?), when I am in the GUD buffer.

I did put this in FOR-RELEASE (2008-03-01 1.764):

 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
 
but it has apparently been moved to the bug tracker:

 http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=808

The green part of the menu bar *does* work like a tool bar if you try it in an
xterm.  When I implemented Gpm functionality at the C level in Emacs (for
mouse highlighting and tool tips) I got it to work in the normal window area
and mode line but not the menu bar.  I was rather hoping some one else would
follow that up.  I was also hoping for a DOS-like menubar rather than tmm.

In retrospect I guess this was overly optimistic.

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