> > This is a suggestion to the mailing list, but also a RFA to RMS. Now that > > gdb-ui is part of the release, how about renaming gdb to gdbf and gdba to > > gdb on the trunk so that the new mode takes the focus? > > IMO, it's not nice to change the package semantic in such radical ways > behind users' backs. I know a few people who like the current "M-x gdb" > and will not be pleased to see the GUI version instead.
It's not nice trying to get Emacs to work out which option has been selected as well as which version of GDB is running. At it's basic level, the GUI version works just like the old version except that breakpoints are marked with a bulet in the fringe. So I'd like to know why some people would not be pleased to see the GUI version instead. Johan Walles is the just about the only user to make a bug report on it since the release. If users choose not to report problems, then it makes it hard to accomodate their view. > How about if we modify "M-x gdb" to invoke gdb-ui if a certain option > is set? Whether this option should be on or off by default, is > another matter, but at least users will be able to control what UI > they get by flipping a single option. Most users will just use the default until it causes problems, so I don't see that there's much difference. > > This would ensure that GDB initialisation scripts that start execution > > don't cause problems with "M-x gdb". It would also mean that using > > "-fullname" would only work for "M-x gdbf", for which it could be the > > default. > > Can't we fix these issues with "N-x gdb", so that both UIs work with > them? Not without making changes to the behaviour of annotations in GDB itself which I don't intend to do as we're trying to move over to GDB/MI. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
