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Hi Kevin and Nick,

Thanks for the advice on how to proceed.  Kevin's method works,
and no doubt Nick's will in emacs 22.  (And i do run gdb on
lots of programs, but i've had to do it a great deal on this
program whose path is very long.)

dan


In article <3au2dtF62lgmdU1@individual.net>,
Kevin Rodgers  <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > How can i get the gdb (gud) mode to either remember between
> > emacs sessions, or set a default executable and/or gdb command
> > in my .emacs file?

>(setq gud-gdb-history '("gdb /path/to/default/executable"))
>

>`C-h f gdb RET', then click on the `gud' library; you'll see that it
>calls (gud-query-cmdline 'gdb) to read its arguments, and that the
>default is the first element of the (gud-symbol 'history nil 'gdb)
>symbol's value.