hello friends, i have downloaded and installed gnu-emacs -21.2.1 my aim is to see the source file line by line along while running with gdb i.e while debugging tracking line by line the steps which i done is i have a sample file called hello.c which contains #include main() { printf("hello1 \n"); printf("hello2 \n"); printf("hello3 \n"); } compiled with cc hello.c -o hello.o and in emacs i opend the file file - > open through menu bar i.e hello.c and then i preseed M-x gdb then i got run gdb (like this): gdb hello.o it show s directly the gdb buffer / screen not the source file with pointing line by line so how to achive this when i say run in the gdb screen it s running properly. help me in this with regards rama kanth Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your life partneronline.