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Re: gdb-ui almosts works in NT
From: |
Edward O'Connor |
Subject: |
Re: gdb-ui almosts works in NT |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:55:43 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> The output from the inferior could be sent directly to the
>> input/output buffer but the author of this part of the code from
>> gdba.el (Tom Lord?) used cat because:
>>
>> ;; We want to use comint because it has various nifty and familiar
>> ;; features. We don't need a process, but comint wants one, so create
>> ;; a dummy one.
>
> I don't understand why is this important; perhaps someone else does.
FYI, IELM had a similar problem, which has been fixed like so:
;; Was cat, but on non-Unix platforms that might not exist, so
;; use hexl instead, which is part of the Emacs distribution.
(condition-case nil
(start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "hexl")
(file-error (start-process "ielm" (current-buffer) "cat")))
Ted
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Edward O'Connor
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Re: gdb-ui almosts works in NT, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/04/01