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Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22984: 25.0.92; Typo in etc/DEBUG Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:18:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87h9gcemrj.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87h9gd3ux3.fsf@gmail.com> <838u1pj996.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1o50l6.fsf@gmail.com> <83k2l8j1uc.fsf@gnu.org> <871t7g4ywv.fsf@gmail.com> <83d1r0iyy6.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaakeptk.fsf@gmail.com> <8360wsiwv8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457731227 26376 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2016 21:20:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22984@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 22:20:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1aeUTl-0002UW-AI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:20:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeUTh-0005cf-B2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeUTd-0005bX-C4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeUTa-0002z8-4Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeUTa-0002z4-25 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:20:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aeUTZ-0007xO-QH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:20:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. 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[96.30.140.134]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y190sm4247799iod.14.2016.03.11.13.18.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:18:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <8360wsiwv8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:27:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114790 Archived-At: At 22:27 +0200 on Friday 2016-03-11, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > How about the following variant? > > This will suggest the file name of the default binary to debug; if > the suggested default is not the Emacs binary you want to debug, > change the file name as needed. > > (This avoids the potentially confusing word "load", and also makes it > clear we are talking about debugging Emacs, not some other program.) Yes, that's better. It clearly states its meaning. Did you see the following suggestion in my earlier message. [I wasn't sure if you'd missed it, or if you'd decided it wasn't valid.] This was with regard to etc/DEBUG not being about the Elisp debugger. At 14:30 -0400 on Friday 2016-03-11, N. Jackson wrote: > > However, the file is named "DEBUG" and the title is "Debugging GNU > Emacs", so it is by no means obvious that this is not the right file to > look at. [to find information about the Elisp debugger] > So perhaps the title should be something like "Debugging GNU Emacs with > GDB", and perhaps it should start out by saying something along the > lines of > > This file is about debugging Emacs with GDB. For information about > the Lisp debugger and about Edebug (the source-level debugger for > Emacs Lisp programs), see the node "Debugging" in the Elisp manual. Regards, N.