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Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el


From: Oleh Krehel
Subject: Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:53:47 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Oleh Krehel <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:11:27 +0100
>> 
>> >> > Don't you _want_ to see the output of a program you are debugging?
>> >> 
>> >> Nope. I can see all that I need through "p". The actual program output
>> >> for my particular program is barely relevant during runtime, and 
>> >> completely
>> >> irrelevant during debug time.
>> >
>> > Then perhaps a better solution would be an option not to pop the
>> > *output* window at all, so that the need to switch to another buffer
>> > in that window is eliminated?  Would you like such a solution better?
>> 
>> No this won't work. I don't want *output* in this particular program. I
>> might want it for others.
>
> If the option not to pop it is a defcustom, you can turn it on when
> you want *output* and off when you don't.

>> I just want the typical approach of burying a buffer once and then
>> having it not surface, even if there's new output.
>
> The option not to pop it in a window will solve this as well, right?

A per-project custom variable is better than nothing, although much
worse than an option of setting a window that has no business being
dedicated to soft-dedicated.




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