From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:23:29 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54ECF9E1.1060906@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83egpf6u01.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424816637 17644 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2015 22:23:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Brown Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 23:23:46 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YQNtJ-0002my-Vf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:23:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQNtJ-0005dG-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:23:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQNtG-0005cJ-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:23:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQNtC-0001Z1-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:23:41 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37764) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQNtC-0001Yd-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF0FA60016; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:23:29 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vj1Git52bPar; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:23:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 914F8A6000F; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:23:29 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <83egpf6u01.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183469 Archived-At: On 02/24/2015 10:31 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The old GDB UI in Emacs is still available via "M-x gud-gdb". Yes, that's what I use. I tried the newish "M-x gdb" a few times and was annoyed by the same things that annoy Glenn Brown. Dedicated windows that cannot switch buffers can be quite frustrating for people who want to use Emacs to edit as well as to debug. This isn't due to Oleh's recent changes; it's due to the big change to M-x gdb in Emacs 23.