Nick Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Welsh Duggan writes: > > Yes, I see that now. It was not obvious from NEWS, so I didn't > > realize I needed to reread the gdb manual. (I remember reading the > > messages covering bits of this on emacs-devel now that you brought > > this up, but I obviously didn't read them closely enough.) > > The old behaviour has not changed. Perhaps NEWS should say that the new > behaviour is the default now. (The extract that I posted earlier was from > the Emacs manual and *not* the gdb manual. Which NEWS did you read?)
I should have said the gdb section of the Emacs manual. > > More importantly though, if one cannot run multiple sessions without > > using --fullname, M-x gdb should not allow you to attempt to so. It > > would be much better for it to give an understandable error message > > letting the user know what is going on. > > Sure. The problem is that Emacs has to start running gdb and receive some > output before it knows whether its working in text mode or graphical mode. > Currently the GUD buffer is created before gdb is run. I would take that. It would catch the majority of cases, I think. You'd have to start two sessions at very nearly exactly the same time for the second to start before the first produced any output, I would think. -- Michael Welsh Duggan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
