From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using gdb (windows popping up) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:44:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7eptv1a.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <20190609115246.41281b50@mistral> <83ftoibofg.fsf@gnu.org> <20190609145921.0fc60f3c@mistral> <83ef42bmij.fsf@gnu.org> <20190609152705.705c806b@mistral> <20190609154856.7d20feea@mistral> <20190609171036.18a89cb0@mistral> <87tvcymlba.fsf@telefonica.net> <20190610093324.2c71fc44@mistral> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="179483"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 10 15:44:55 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 1haKbX-000kZV-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:44:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haKbV-0004E0-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1haKb1-00043c-J9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haKb0-0005WN-0k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=37072 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1haKax-0005UN-Dh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1haKat-000jnN-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:44:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:6DWms6R8MHMOMhGEJOOTHTSwPiA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:120893 Archived-At: jonetsu writes: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:36:08 +0200 > Óscar Fuentes 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.