[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#7575: closed (gdb command history saving)

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has caused the GNU bug report #7575,
regarding gdb command history saving
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> gdb command history saving
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> Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:49:24 +0000
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> Hi.
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> When GDB is used through emacs, command history is not saved to my  
> .gdbhist file on gdb 'quit'.
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> I use a MinGW/msys/bash environment. When gdb is used from the shell  
> prompt, the settings in .gdbinit are sufficient to ensure ~/.gdbhist  
> (or h:/install/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/pbeardm1/.gdbhist ..I've  
> experimented with both) is successfully written to with the GDB  
> command history.
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> When i use GNU emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) from this shell  
> and start the debugger within, having typed a few arbitrary commands  
> to populate the command history / ring, i quit the debugger and ..
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> ..observe a time stamp change on the correct .gdbhist file ..BUT find  
> its content exactly as it was previously i.e. with nothing appended.
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> I expect to see my last GDB commands written to the file.
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> Note: through emacs, this file is not read either ..which makes me  
> think that i haven't tweaked 'input ring' settings to use this file as  
> a 'ring source' or something. I enquired on the IRC channel and got  
> tumbleweeds ..hence i call this a 'bug' (quotes) to leave room for the  
> possibility of it being a trivial config issue!
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> Thanks.
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Glenn Morris wrote:
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> > You could add something like the following to gdb-mode-hook:
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> >   (setq comint-input-ring-file-name "~/.gdbhist")
> >   (comint-read-input-ring t)
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> > shell-mode tries to do this by default; perhaps gdb-mode should do
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> I've added this to M-x gdb.
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