Hi,
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:27:10 -0500
> From: Shiyuan <gshy2014@gmail.com>
>I can confirm this behavior in both Emacs 23.3 and the current
> I am using Emacs 23.3(9.0) in Mac OS 10.6. This is the operation sequence
> which causes the problem:
> 1. start Emacs with -Q, open GDB under Emacs: gdb --annotate=3 program
> 2. set the breakpoint: b location
> 3. run the program: r
> 4. When GDB hits the breakpoint, the window splits horizontally into two
> windows, one with GDB,
> another one is the source code, at this time, the focus point is in GDB
> window.
> 5. while the focus point stil remains in GDB window, open a new frame with
> : Ctrl-x 5 2.
> Now a new frame is created with one window and another GDB is in it.
> 6. Switch the focus point to source code window, Run delete other winodw:
> Ctrl-X 1.
> Now the source code window occupies the whole frame which was
> previously splited into two windows.
> Now Emacs has two frames. One frame has only GDB window, another frame
> has only source code window.
> Now, If I switch the focus point back to the GDB window, and keep
> stepping using the GDB command "next", the focus
> point will switch back to source code window automatically after each
> GDB command.
development sources.
Please report this as a bug using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET", so that
it will get fixed, preferably for the next version 24.3.