The breakpoint manager is... more difficult to use than I think it
should be.

For example, you can enter the name of the function you want to
inspect in the left hand drop down.  However, hitting enter after
entering the name means only that when you next select the drop
down with your mouse the name you entered will be highlighted --
you still have to scroll to that entry and select it with the mouse.

Also, the stop line/stop all/close buttons seem unnecessarily
inconvenient.

First off, the "stop" buttons should be labelled "toggle".
Except once you've used "stop all" you cannot toggle individual
lines using the "stop line" button.

Second off, if you have a wide screen and a slow touch pad, dragging
the mouse pointer all the way over to the close button, then back,
is tedious.  There's no keyboard shortcuts for these buttons and
their positions seem unhelpful.

Thirdly, I understand that most of these commands have 13!:
command line equivalents.  I believe that these commands are
concise enough that the UI could be used as a teaching tool
(where it would have an option to display those command lines,
with a linear form of their arguments, as they are executed).
Perhaps if this were included it would wind up being more
keyboard friendly...

FYI,

--
Raul
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