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Re: Multiple debugging sessions


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: Multiple debugging sessions
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:31:11 +0900

2005/11/11, Nick Roberts <address@hidden>:
> I'm impressed that you can debug multiple programs and read gnus all at the
> same time.  You could open the files and read gnus in just one instance,
> changing the background colour, for example, so that you can distinguish
> between the two.

That is the vi way.  It isn't the Emacs way.  Running multiple emacs
sessions is simply not an acceptable long-term workaround.

> I've already said that I'm not planning to retrofit such a feature but
> keep the code simple by not having it.  Of course, if many users share
> your view after the release, I will reconsider.

I'll do it myself if necessary (after the release of course).

> I was aware of the issue. The file gdba.el, which I used as my starting point,
> used many buffer local variables, presumably to allow multiple sessions.  It
> didn't work, so I made them global.

Lovely.  You made it worse.

-miles
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