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Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el
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Oleh Krehel |
Subject: |
Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:02:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Glenn,
Glenn Brown <address@hidden> writes:
> I applaud the efforts to make gdb-mode more friendly to novices.
>
> However, as as 20+ year users of 'M-x gdb' in emacs, I, too, find
> recent changes to the default 'M-x gdb' behavior frustrating and
> counter-productive for my own work: I miss inline output in the *gud*
> frame: I am daily annoyed at output opening a new window I didn't ask
> for, which I must manually close or 'Ctrl-x o' (other-window) past,
> since I am often in 'emacs -nw' (No mouse) on remote machines. I am
> annoyed that the new window-that-I-never-asked-for won't let me
> 'Ctrl-x b' (switch-to-buffer) to the buffer I actually want to see.
>
> I understand that novices tend to use print-debugging and the new
> input/output buffer can be useful to them. I appreciate that the
> default configuration should be optimized for novices doing native
> development in a windowed environment.
> But please understand that many professionals develop code where
> stdout-in-its-own-window is counter-productive. (In my daily use, the
> only output is from the testing framework I use.) Please understand
> that not everyone has access to a mouse when doing remote and/or
> embedded development.
>
> So please, gdb-mode maintainers, if you are going to change the
> default behaviour of gdb-mode, give us an easy way to get back access
> the old output-in-the-*gud*-buffer behavior, which is more productive
> for some of us professionals.
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
> --Glenn
I don't understand, I was the last one to touch gdb-mi.el in a year and
I didn't change any default behavior, only introduced a new defcustom
that changes the behavior if someone sets it. Are you referring to my
change?
Oleh
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, (continued)
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/10
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/02/09
- Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Oleh Krehel, 2015/02/09
- RE: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Drew Adams, 2015/02/09
Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Barry OReilly, 2015/02/09
Re: Use of dedicated windows in gdb-mi.el, Glenn Brown, 2015/02/24