From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using gdb (windows popping up)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:44:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7eptv1a.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20190610093324.2c71fc44@mistral
jonetsu <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> writes:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:36:08 +0200
> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
>> There is a huge difference. A new Emacs instance does not share state
>> with other instances.
>>
>> A frame is just what in modern GUI terminology is known as a toplevel
>> window, or what most users call a window. An Emacs instance can have
>> multiple frames, just like the same Firefox or LibreOffice instance
>> can have multiple windows.
>
> Yes, but for all user/practical purposes it is another instance
Emphatically: no.
> in the
> sense that another 'app' is popping up showing the source code, hiding
> the other emacs beneath it, while the gdb interactive buffer remains in
> this 'other app' underneath.
Even if what you see is everything that counts for you, the definition
of "instance" that you use is not correct, because you can change what
you see on frame1 while operating from frame2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-10 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-09 15:52 Using gdb (windows popping up) jonetsu
2019-06-09 16:09 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 16:18 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 16:58 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 17:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-09 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 18:59 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-09 19:27 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 19:33 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-09 19:48 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 20:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-06-09 21:10 ` jonetsu
2019-06-09 22:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2019-06-10 13:33 ` jonetsu
2019-06-10 13:44 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2019-06-10 14:00 ` jonetsu
2019-06-10 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-10 18:52 ` jonetsu
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