From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x gdb : showing args Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 08:31:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftojcojc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190608163041.265b135c@mistral> <878subokhz.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="239778"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 09 07:32:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hZqR8-0010Fq-ME for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 07:32:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZqR7-0007cu-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:32:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZqQv-0007bh-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hZqQv-0006eF-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:31:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4935 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hZqQu-0007PE-TU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Jun 2019 01:31:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <878subokhz.fsf@telefonica.net> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes on Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:00 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120861 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:06:00 +0200 > > > "Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is > > [...]" > > > > Is it possible to not have this rather useless presentation string and > > go immediately the args ? If not, the frame has to be expanded in > > order to view what are the actual args, which is not as nice as seeing > > them directly after doing 'show args'. > > That rather useless presentation string comes form gdb itself. Try it on > a shell. > > AFAIU emacs merely sends the commands you type to gdb and prints its > response. Indeed. I suggest to file a feature-request bug report, to make the output more reader-friendly. There's no reason why Emacs couldn't reformat the output to make it nicer.