Re: gdb-ui sells Emacs

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> writes:

>  > I thought I should mention here that gdb-ui is a major turn-on for
>  > newbies.  For the past few months I've several times seen people
>  > exposed to Emacs for the first time who were very impressed by the
>  > gdb-ui features and told me this one package is worth for them the
>  > effort of learning to use Emacs in general and its debugger interface
>  > in particular.
>  > 
>  > Good job, Nick!
>  > 
>  > (Speedbar is another turn-on, btw.)
>
> There has been little feedback has been over the last year or so,
> and I've not been sure if thats because people like it as it is, or
> because they don't like it and therefore don't use it.

More likely because they are taking it for granted.  It is an "oh,
Emacs does this now" thing.  Nothing to write home about unless it
does not work.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum