From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:46:44 +0200 Message-ID: <831tle7ivv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83egpf6u01.fsf@gnu.org> <54ECF9E1.1060906@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424836018 17149 80.91.229.3 (25 Feb 2015 03:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: glennb@google.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 25 04:46:48 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 1YQSvw-0007F3-6I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 04:46:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQSvv-0000Ne-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQSvr-0000LT-TU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQSvj-0004da-Rc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:46:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQSvj-0004dF-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NKB00J0068AIK00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:46:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NKB00JH86HLBL80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:46:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <54ECF9E1.1060906@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:183479 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:23:29 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 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. It's a matter of habit. I, on the contrary, had no problems getting used to the new behavior, FWIW.